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The Tawdry Apostrophe (Extended Metaphor) Part 1

Prologue
Alas not just the pure search, and procreative struggle of poetry
can a hood over psyche’s head put, and stumble out prison security
but attitudes to communication generally, particularly where it is difficult.
So let’s see, is my “Apostrophe” condescending self-indulgence
hiding behind an erudite popularism? (I have been told so.)
Something tawdry, base, inferior, unworthy of me and the world the poorer?
(I fear so.)
Or light verse ironic ephemera, gone tomorrow, raw rashly
attempting to self-justify, with cynical political expedience?
You are my referee and reviewer, for I fear indolence
and my political enemies’ public backlash, imperialist violence as prosody.

But a warning, I am serving no caviar and hors d’oeuvres; but cod, chips and vinegar
for this is no time for reflective trimeter, and lovingly chosen metaphor.
I have a story of ordure and a warning to give, the form I need is narrative
the boozy romp of bald description, the extra long line and hate inspired initiative.

Well then.
An English Grammar School

The single most common English grammar headache
don’t splutter, it’s no joke, keep your eyes open:
a punctuation mark in shape of a snake, posing as correct spelling
a vipers /s//ə z/ and worse, admitted, with split personality glaring.
It sounds like a hoax I know, but its bite swells /ziz/
so the best you can do is release the pressure with yelling
or risk ending up in English Lit, and in poetry truth discovering.

Inexcusable, syntax more like semaphore, this apostrophe.
How and who first conceived, such boastful misanthropy
and wanton waste of school child’s precious learning years.
A guarantee of miscommunication and learning alienation
subtle psychological scarring and language fear
for millions of fresh faced innocents new each tear.

Let us relive that first lesson in primer one, eyes wonder
it’s Mum and milk, and off-to-school, you’re nearly five.
Waiting no longer is lay priest, Jack of all, and local discretion
from national goals; but word builder, identity layer, English teacher!
This modern English teacher, the pride of political correctness
in whom impossible a sadistic tendency should reside unguessed
by deep criminal record checking, multi-panel personality vetting.
One of life’s little ironies then, in the hive of social progress
that the poison should be hidden in the lesson.

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