I think, I hear, I see
different things
and today I heard the guttural sounds
of dialect spoken by 2 gentlemen
I took a quick look to confirm what I guessed
they were older men, the other side of 60.and that got me thinking
in a matter of years say 10 to 20,
we may no longer hear these dialects
Cantonese, Teo chew, Hokkien
that's how long it take to kill a dialect
why should I care
it's not my language but I do
for language shapes identity
and when we kill a language or a dialext
we kill a way of living thinking being.
but not matter how low I get
when I see a flock of green parrots take to the sky
my spirits lift up with them
that's why I walk
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