What a sad thing to think
that what one teaches in their native tongue
is given with the force and expectation
of being known
when none had heard their words before.
How odd it might seem to the listener
that these words hold such vast meaning
to the speaker of folly.
What meaning can they glean when it is not
with deliberate thought
delivered and fore taught.
The native man in his own land,
not lost in his own mind,
will never find that he is lost.
He will deliver his thoughts on Dickenson,
or her ideas on Hemmingway
and never pay mind to whether or not
their students had ever heard the words before.
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