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Existential Speech Defect

Abiodun Salako

Confusion cannot name
anything properly

I stutter at the heels
of a foreign Adam

I cannot pronounce the s
in verbs well because
they move too much

verbs swim and slither
whereas I am stone:

it's a speech defect
that's existential

(C) Abiodun Salako
08/09/2020


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