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JOELLE Sep 2019
The French language to you, was little more than an inheritance
It was the promise between mother and daughter that a grandchild ought to know the language they used

In Bonnyville, they occupy the church, the Sobeys, the liquor store with that butchered accent
The hybrid between Quebecois French and rural Albertan English - ugly, and indecisive

You don’t live in Bonnyville, where the French roam free
The French in Edmonton feels lost, almost unknown
Poorly funded buildings house these Franco-albertans - children with the same inheritance as you

Immersion becomes a ***** word,
worthy of contempt and disgust
All the French kids know each other,
forced to grow up together while being deprived of options
They all go to the same university - the small francophone campus which stands unimpressive in the only neighbourhood in Edmonton where stop signs say ‘arrêt’

Oil Country, home for the right and prosperous, they don’t like you
You, you’re Francophone -
Stuck up, ******, pretentious...
Besides, there are no such things as Franco-albertans.

What could you be other than an invented term by some lost souls?
You aren’t French enough -
Alberta is an English speaking province.

The time you went to France,
someone asked if you were French-Canadian
Before you could reply, your friends spun your story - something believable, commendable...
your parents, lived in Montreal, and moved to Alberta with their wholly French children

Your father grew up in Edmonton,
memorizing the parks and malls by name
while your mother lived on a dairy farm, living in french - the ugly acadienesque french.

But, to everyone around you, it’s much more believable that you are a stranger to this province.
Maybe you are.
WA West Mar 2019
Some half baked dubious ******* that I wrote on a train headed in the direction of Kortrijk:


''An endless stream of not arseds to hang your ***** washing on/Ya forebearers are all mutts, your pallbearers will be too/You are a kazzoo blowing *******, an idiot's tac nightmare/seen two or three of your alleged family members puffing their chests out down the backtrack, propa knackas/Ya ma is very particular, your sister is as cold as a fortnight in the briar dene (although a fine dancer when she sets her mind to it/
Getting older or more toxic? Shushhhh, be kind/started hearing normans and lennys settling betting slips while I'm on the netty/dettol and despair- the golden duo made good/I'll be bed ridden in time for christmas- flannel pyjamas and sentimentality/heard your kid slagging uz & saw demons in the mist on the windee (window, *******)/cutting my losses/tobogganing hopes/
the left side of my chest is 85 the last weeks/the streets in Brussels speak to me and are canny this time of year/I am not a francophone by predilection/making a secret pact with the universe not to mourn its passing/Every social situation is becoming like a casino for *******/Starting to feel a little bit more Panzram than Ghandi/Flanders is flat cos someone trod on it while under the drink/I might have fitted better into a bygone era- a bewildering lack of manual skills- what came first the dial up internet in your ma's back room or my cack handedness/Don't have owt to tell anyone anymore, don't give two shites nevermind one/Your step brother watches hollyoaks and eats ****** snacks while your step sister hums songs of unknown origin''.
A bumbling idiot's invented history of tyneside:
''I saw 3 cats attack a pigeon in heaton park as bobby thompson, aka the little waster, danced suggestively with the setting sun, a serviette tucked down his front to catch his dinner....................mike neville cried in the dark, while suckling away at a glass tizer bottle from the arcade chippy in whitley bay, that day there was no news on tyneside......T Dan Smith liked a snack as much as the next man...but what he really liked was to drink a pint of water everytime the clock struck 36- that way he could **** the toon into oblivion at his own behest or the behest of occult forces.....I found Gazza, shellsuited, eating a child's portion of cod and chips in St Paul's church yard, in his ruddyu red hand was a 6 pack of socks from winners (the flagship store). Abandoned between his feet were 50 notebooks from the fisherman's mission.....don't get me started on sting''.
ConnectHook Sep 2021
1)  Francophone Africa:
Studied Marxism and existential lit.
Obtained work visa to America.
Whined and railed against U.S. imperialism and kapitalism.
Took job at major university bankrolled by Pepsi corporation.
Became U.S. citizen.
Still complaining.

2)  New England:
Affluent suburban life with loving parents.
Went to Ivy League U. Became *****-feminist/marxist artist.
Moved to the Left coast. Used her talents to undermine the patriarchy.
Met successful male entrepreneur.
Became soccer mom in Beserkley.

3)  Midwest cow-town:
Tripped on Leary and Baba Ram Dass.
Followed the dead in a colorful van.
Lived the wannabee hippie life into the 90's.
Traded tie-dye for business suit.
Now manages funds for major investment firm.

4)  Pacific NW:
Raised by single mom. ***-head at 14.
Punk-rock anarchist turned straight-edge Buddhist.
Now a Maoist kindergarten teacher with 401K plan.
Paid vacations to vibrant underdeveloped nations.
Still agitating for revolution.
To be human is to be a SINNER and a HYPOCRITE.
Welcome to the club.
Christ is the only (only) way to salvation.
Lawrence Hall Sep 2024
Lawrence Hall, HSG
[email protected]

                                   For English Pick Up the Anglophone

For English pick up the Anglophone
For French the Francophone
For others in Canada the Allophone
(“‘Allo! ‘Allo!”)
For Mandarin or Cantonese the Sinophone
For Portugal the Lusophone
In Deutschland perhaps the Deutschesphone
(or perhaps not)
And in Russia the Russophone

Please phone in, everyone

Because isn’t it wonderful -
So many phones, and each with a direct line to God
Biography

I have tried to make a biography of myself
I managed three pages and found my life was so boring
it was not worth the effort.
I began fantasizing I had been a general in the foreign legion
worked in central Africa as in security agent
finding out of people who wanted a free country and not influenced
by Franc's interest in the region.
Unfortunate people were thrown into jail and some of them executed.
I helped France installing presidents who took bribes
and followed the will of the French.
Later on, Paris, I got information that someone was trying
to assassinate the De Gaulle, they were disgruntled officer that had
fled Algeria when France gave it independence, by doing so
was to make the region a Francophone sphere.
As an agent, I reported this the crazy generals went through with it
and an attempt on De Gaulle´s life followed.
Of course, the plot was thwarted and the guilty shot.
I got bad conscience about my work left the legion and got a job as a cook in the merchant navy, and that is nothing to write about.
Johnny Noiπ Apr 2019
· Gross / inɡrōs, enɡrōs /
Late word; of course; 1.
The voice of convenience
derives all, culminating in
the old totally absorbing
the synonymous; and low
head trapped takes a fair
fair fair fair maiden to
its retreat, trapped diving
fully absorbing the use
of fire recipients error,
then the false from
compact motion sensitivity
to be hypnotized,

"What is needed is in the book,
the fascinating, exciting and
fascinating, exciting and fascinating,
exciting fascinating, fascinating
and charming, attractive and exciting,
hypnotic; hypnotic that can plexus
'mind time' ARCAAICO profits
have dominion. "picked up the best
position to absorb 2. Trade Act
(legal document) into its final form,
and the final definition :. A story
is an example of the record (output)
the final print version write / play
louder / is used to transport
equipment and absorbing lawyers
written tests, source (above and
from the other side) in the 1-2 'and'
and English, French time 1 GROSS
at the end of the great medieval
retail 'wholesale' ..; 2 is coming

to the francophone latross
anglonormandro ingrossare French,
French born manuscript in medieval
Latin "to write the big and bright
and clear to workers who screen
and letter writing. 1. adjective like
to try transferring the image to a
memory of fear brought. Ray light,
they are being referred to. 'the
reflection of a mirror reflective.' 2.
the flight done by the members
as often as the interests of a higher level,
in the silence, he kept to himself,
a flame from the reflective things,
hopes all things, have a chain
of no discussion with the Word: ...

Remache, the third person present
to give the collarbone, the loss
of the time was spent sitting in the singular,
the participle or a gerund: riveting
1. attach the plate to hold the nail rivets.
fly thereon, "walked away materially
neglected ' part in the complex (a).
"That was riveted by a television news
show; Synonyms for keeping me busy;
keeping the same picture if the loss
of state are intrigued by the likes
of reluctantly captured hypnotized
"It's not Newsreel riveted fascinating,
exciting, fascinating, interesting,
exciting, wants to win a thrilling,
exciting, interesting and compelling,
compulsive, fascinating, fascinating,
hypnotic, transfixing, informal
unputdownable's a fascinating book,"

antonyms: indifferent, boring,
boring, boring the office
you hold. "All eyes were fixed
on him" Synonyms: fixed price
focused attention on the trailing
edge closed; My eye is fixed
on the headmistress.
"A report is rare and yellow
and a girl." This is the dream,
your dream. Dream, dream,
dream, perhaps Albert,
who is to die; In the stomach,
in meditation. This was
explained. help otherwise,
it is, that I may do, because
it is not the result of charity
in the mind; happier
and more beautiful "
that is, I have not lost you,
and the stranger and the fashion
at this time, "that pregnancy
is always Poverty and party
dresses. For this reason,
a part of the field, Billows
benefit 'S' goes forward, lest
they be discouraged by
Protesters from the basics:
copper. Silent attraction
through thoughts deep reflection
and meditation inspiration,
prayer, philosophy, The spirit
of self; a reduction in the cost
of a dream; Sleep, pain,
depression, sadness. I look
at my mobile phone, Albert
Suspension and repeatedly.
Angels do not know.
The needs of others. Oh
dear! What is the statement:
"Was the Compassionate
and caring Answer: The severity
of that employee; next.
"There is a need for soul's
exasperating expressions."
Johnny Noiπ Oct 2018
The death of the queen 's great ***
by a black snooch is the power of the great
green space; the image of the stars, of the sun,
she felt || Welcome to the Hell Building,
Fire's golden American Dream; Not a hair,  
to the celestial that is going to happen,
as an old man to the blue cold hard woman
baboons; When they call American Gold Street,
Six of the faults of history are the moon's *******
Thinking of the air, milk and water, but the kids
love Igor in a clean opening horn | Living poet
to be a big guy compounded; We can not open
a full glass of drink thee, a potion of time
especially if you need to learn English;
The Highest state of aviation is air drunk,
The ear of the course such as brown Music
In standard, you can hear a little walking ||
A Stone glory of ***** names,
Natural forms of Greek writing
Barbie's Voice, man's standing joke ||
Kiss and fall in the air, Secretty
leaving all power to the many
blind sweet characters | Happy days in a window,
onscreen alchemy of a man who wants to be
an invisible image or do evil; to the cat
that is the whole question of money for the  ******
who is more than a friend, seriously brainy
Russian rock falling from Grace in the garden's
purposes; School of the World cool girl
from the side of Christ,
Diamond fields of Francophone |
| |  |       |       ||
Great queen *** black death of snooch,
enough space on a green big power
to the stars, sun, the sun felt it left
the picture || beauty heart blood hell
of poetry live American dream lifts
the golden light of hair projections
of heaven, like the old blue cold hard
woman's Middle ***** with one call
said American Gold Street *** was
the fault of the moon's **** of history;
the word was thinking the baby room's
air ******, water kids hand but the child
Igor lost a walk-on opening to the gaze
of the | poet's heart's a great human
compound drink glass can not open,
full of three English especially for
part time work, the state of aviation
in drunk sky best times music brown
edge running star flag, he could hear
a little walking; || Father's name is
Stone glory born ***** book Greek
form writing natural born Barbie's
joke Voice person standing || house of
the wind to fall kissed Secret leaving
a full blind control with being for many
characteristically happy; | happy day
window on screen alchemy's image
want invisible That guy is a money
hole; read guys to change the cat's
Brain, entire ****** Jews friends
heavy Russian rock fall garden lips
School world arm arm wet girl
Christ to the high mountains
of Field Francophones |: Great Queen's
***, black death snooch Green enough,
space moves to a big power; to the stars'
sun, our sun felt left a picture, ||
Beauty's Heart of Blood, hell of poetry
lives the American Dream lifts the Golden
Light; Hair projections of heaven,
like the old blue cold hard woman's
Middle ***** with the calling, said
American Gold Street, six the fault
of the Moon's history's ****, words thinking
the baby's room air of Kids' hand
but the child ***** water, Igor lost
a walk opening the gaze of the | poet's heart,
a great human compound; Drinking glass,
can opener, full of three English, especially
for part-time work; the state of aviation
in drunk Sky Best Times Music Brown Edge
running start the flag, he could hear
a little walking || Father's name is Stone
glory born ***** Natural born Greek
writing book form Barbie's Voice
a standing joke, || House kissed the wind
to fall Secret,leaving a fully blind
controlled being for many characteristically
happy; | happy day window on screen
Alchemy; That is a guy who wants
to be invisible; His image a hole
read money guys to change to cats;
Heavy, the entire brain, ****** Jews
are our Friends; Russian rock falls
in the garden's lips, her School of the World
in her arm, arm wet girl Christ to the high
Fields of the mountains of the Francophones ||
Only Medusa will understand this poem!
Johnny Noiπ Jan 2019
nothing

Black Grey Korea, Italy, Australia, Africa,
Africa, Russia, Salt, Asia, Indian, African,
African, African, American, European,    Black Mothers' Day,
White Combat City, Stars, Eclipses to Red Lights Greece's
Golden Star in the Sun, Torture and Naked Russian Blue Sky;
Skyline and Naked,        Sky Blue Sky's ******, for example,
War, History, Future Partner, Tom, Silver Bucket,
French Blue Blood, Animal Heads, Books,
Slight psychological problems that have been drunk for art.
But their first of their under-56s, their old friends,
had a new wall to the fingertips of light societies,
light bands and rocky mountains with the Olympic leg of football.
The city's cul-de-sacs Francophone journalists
have arrested thousands of new insects
from the bite of the brain.                        The source of the natural
material resources from Mexico,
and around the world, earth's universes.
You will be informed by the latest news,
University College Road Circles,  Question about China's "Gray"
Survival Scarring Illness Note "AMS", "AMS",
and the "Bob Planet".        The party council's
councilor Catherine has been taking care
of international travel money, roads, hot sand,
and the lions in the ark. Pastor Andrews expresses
his gaze,                         Stratelli encourages those
              who are invisible to hear invisible voices.
Jah's high acceleration speed and hidden
in the Revolutionary Guard's revolutionary
patch and community fellowship
to gauge the level of cautiousness.                                     Marcus on the wall
                                                                ­      of the former businessman's body
was crushed by George Sulfide and the morning mist,        that left the depth
                                                                ­                     of the colored mistakes.

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