YUH RAP SO (2.9)

   
            

           Dilys in her reading ran into a lot
           Of such cases of American lingo
           & drew a blank: for her they bore no echo
           To their metaphoric/idiomatic
           Assumptiveness (– blind like all things demotic,
           As her snide Option-Prof. Mara Brickolage
           Had once pronounced in her class on Sacrilege
           As Civic Duty – which had not gone down well
           With the Vice-Rector & the Vice-Chancellor
           But was a hit with vice-Catholic students):
           They didn’t rhyme with her languagexperience:

           But she wasn’t even at home with her own 
           Country’s slang, so much less with American:
           As a child, she’d kept her head buried in books
           British, tales of princesses with golden locks
           Having to pass some test of their purity
           To prove they could do their duty by Beauty

          (from “Raponani” . a verse novel by Brian Chan, 2023)