The Holy Gospel according to the Prairie Messiah

Like a myth you rode in from the west. From the go you had my button pressed. Did the tea-time of your soul Make you long for wilder days? Did you never let Jack Kerouac Wash over you in waves?

Wednesday, May 17, 2006

They all gather 'round my teepee late at night tryin' to catch a peek at me in nothing but my buffalo briefs. I got em standin' in line.

Geographical spelling can sometmes been a phonetical challenge for me being that I live in Louisiana. There are many Cajun French words used. There are also many Native American words used. There are some Spanish words used as well. It's it French or Spanish spellings with the Native American pronunciations that occasionally manage to mess things all up. It's it Heebert or Abear? Depends on where you are at or where you are from. We actually have names like Suquaknatchah, Tupawek, Filhoil and Telemaque streets. They do not sound like they look. One day my husband will finally figure out how to say DeSiard, Cheniere and Choudrant as the locals do. I, the native, even stumble on pronounciation from time to time.

Tom, Dick and Harrys need not apply. You are the bourgeois. Begone, simpleton peasants!

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