Affair With Tongues
for Keisha Ellis
would I get, would I be
nearer me, nearer home
were I to get next to Spanish
let Spanish get next to me
another European tongue
in my African mouth
after having been made
to spit my African tongue out
© Obediah Michael Smith, 2008
5:56 p.m. 17.05.08
for Keisha Ellis
would I get, would I be
nearer me, nearer home
were I to get next to Spanish
let Spanish get next to me
another European tongue
in my African mouth
after having been made
to spit my African tongue out
© Obediah Michael Smith, 2008
5:56 p.m. 17.05.08
posted by Obie Quiet at 12:41 AM
2 Comments:
Brilliant, Obediah. Thank you.
I'm curious, why did you choose Spanish to consider getting next too?
-Keisha
I have this intense academic and literary involvement with Spanish after having attended 12th annual Havana Poetry Festival, 2007. I've been invited back this year. I'm expecting to be in Havana for this years festival, May 26 to May 31. I've been watching the films in Spanish in my collection. "I wrote "Affair With Tongues," for you, while watching one of them. It might have been, "Azucar Amarga" or "Bitter Sugar". Your sugar's not bitter, is it, honey child?
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