Anglophone aficionado exudes infatuation with English language

Versus me

(chilling as an outsize ego freezer)

profusely perspiring

and heavily panting

experiencing one after another
stuff whet dreams are made
frolicking in autumn mist
(think Maxfield Parrish painting)

while skirt chasing

and playfully tackling,

a gamesome gamine with verve

mercilessly coquettish ingenue

"precociously seductive"

overgrown Lolita wannabe.

 

Solitude and introvertedness
mebbe made more manifest destiny

courtesy severe nasal notable twang

(otherwise known as split uvula)

yours truly wittingly drew taunts

and unutterable pang

to escape being bullied as scapegoat

entering magical world

of mine imagination

fostered learning about

all creatures great and small

by age appropriate books.

 

Logophile lusts ever stronger after

twenty six letter combinations
(analogously surrendering to mistress)
that yield an estimated 171,146 words
currently in use in the English language;

according to the Oxford English Dictionary,

an additional 47,156 obsolete words exist.

 

I luxuriate engrossed

with choice reading material

and out of desperation

to slake insatiable thirst
(to discern syllabification)

yours truly doth read aloud

intently hearing cadence

of vowels and consonants.

 

Up until I entered six grade

(at Henry Kline elementary -

a one classroom per grade - school)

classmates bullied, derided,

and feigned to hammer -

jabbing leering, nasty

pimping ragout as a rule

which boyhood self of mine

availed a perfect bullseye target

with combination of diminutiveness,

 

being painfully quiet,

essentially remaining mum the entire day
except when called upon to answer question
thence utterance emanating between lips

produced and emitted

a strong nasal sound to boot

grist for the mill

sans malice meted, mimicked,
and mocked mashup

of mine warped congestion

 

ah, twas only by a fluke conversation,

whence a speech pathologist

informed my parents about

the Lancaster Cleft Palate clinic,

where oral an examination

revealed minor birth defect

identified as a submucous cleft palate,

which explained the severe pinched twang

somewhat mitigated by wearing

a removable prosthetic

fashioned by Prosthodontist

 

Dr. Mohammad Mazaheri MSC, DDS

fastened with clasps to upper teeth

whereby a makeshift miniature

plastic protuberance closed the gap

so air would be prevented

passing thru my button nose

and thus gentle and soft as a shutterfly

shunted air out thee oral opening

though congenital defect disallowed

returning merchandise back to sender
nor could blame be affixed

 

at either father nor mother

who both harbored the genetic mutation

now such admissions

re: aforementioned impediment allows,

enables and provides boasting rights
if in a mood to temper

any curiosity or satisfying a rumor
whispered down the alley,
whence I said “ah”

left nagging nincompoops

as if pie hole filled with a gobstopper.