HUMAN PERSONS
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English is a weird language
With lots of dips and curves…
Was it the Pope who said this phrase
Or one of his translators?
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We would say “human beings”,
Their personhood is assumed…
Despite pet owner objections
No other species we include!.
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A bone to pick about English–
Do you notice all the cliches…
Too many aren’t taught the basics,
And richness slips away!
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I dispise proselytizers
Who will not good English learn…
Missing meanings in the Bible
Because of how phrases turn.
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I guess the uneducated
To the poorly educated go…
That’s why I.S.I.S. gains footholds
In most places that they show.
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A Muslim of my acquaintance,
Doesn’t know of the literary device…
Or how the Bible says what it says
‘Though he’s memorized it “twice.”
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Trying as a friend to explain this,
To him…he only argues…
If he really knew what he memorized
He’d open his eyes to Good News!
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Congrats to the Pope for trying
At the U.N., English to speak…
He proves the adage of Matthew five-five,
The earth is for the teachable meek!
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–Jonathan Caswell
By the Mighty Mumford 