and failed to master. I speak English, native
proud. Some decent German, French for years
but never dared to mouth aloud. Fulfulde,
Hausa, Arabic. Modern, classic
Hebrew, Greek. Don't think me so astute—
with my mother's mother I was mute.
Polish, Irish, Ulster Scots, so many
lessons I forgot because I really
only speak the tongue that opens every
door, I only really speak the one
that never lets you learn another, if
you learned this one before.
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