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Dialect

Dialect
(Belatedly for Read Write.)

We have our own dialect
with words that mean other words,
phrases that mean paragraphs,
glances that mean
whole conversations.

A stranger would no doubt
feel lost in a foreign land,
while we play the curmudgeonly old couple
insisting on mumbling in the patois,
our guests listening in mute confusion.