why is it
that some people
take this womans words and spit them back at her
saying "can you not speak english?"
others
return only uncomfortable silence
and yet others
want to dig inside her head
and find from whence these words come
and then!
there are even fewer others
who somehow seem to
take each archaic phrase in stride
and return some very lovely turns of their own :)
she wonders
how can she learn to tell one from the other
before the spit flies?