have you any idea?
how irritating?
it is to hear?
if you talk?
all the time?
as if you were asking questions?
when you're not?
smart enough?
to ask yourself?
why your speech?
has only one tune?
don't you realize?
there's more than one way?
to have your speech patterns?
terminated.
© Paul Taylor 2003
This poem was recorded for BBC Radio 3's language and literature programme, The Verb, broadcast on 28 May 2005.
A new version has been recorded for the forthcoming trombone poetry album.
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