Am the only person to routinely confuse William Wiecek and Henry Wiencek? 🗃️
Leon Jackson
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Professor @ USC. I write about African American life in early national and antebellum Boston. My posts are my own opinions and do not reflect those of my employer.
![aíaî, ay, ay! ... stutterer Demosthenes gob full of pebbles outshouting seas
4 words only of mi 'art aches and ...
"Mine's broken,
you barbarian, T.W.!" He was nicely spoken.
"Can't have our glorious heritage done to death!"
I played the Drunken Porter in Macbeth.
"Poetry's the speech of kings. You're one of those
Shakespeare gives the comic bits to: prose!
All poetry (even Cockney Keats?) you see
's been dubbed by [ns] into RP, Received Pronunciation, please believe [ns]
your speech is in the hands of the Receivers."
"We say [ns] not [uz], T.W.!" That shut my trap.
I doffed my flat a's (as in "flat cap") my mouth all stuffed with glottals, great
lumps to hawk up and spit out ... E-nun-ci-ate!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x5l4kbf5viqpewfma77pmmex/bafkreiavgt4cy6od345mujezcmit7m2icnw3hv4ztwismo5wh32hoxdjke)
![So right, yer buggers, then! We'll
your lousy leasehold Poetry.
I chewed up Littererchewer and spat the bones
into the lap of dozing Daniel Jones, dropped the initials l'd been harried as and used my name and own voice:
[uz] [uz] [uz],
ended sentences with by, with, from, and spoke the language that I spoke at home.
RIP RP, RIP T.W.
I'm Tony Harrison no longer you!
You can tell the Receivers where to go (and not aspirate it) once you know Wordsworth's matter/water are full
rhymes,
[uz] can be loving as well as funny.
My first mention in the Times automatically made Tony Anthony!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x5l4kbf5viqpewfma77pmmex/bafkreigyjvfeu7mlbwe5rgw5o23sj26egurnwpkmjdjamlingvrzlfkvx4)
