MacPherson | Poems

Poems
by Jan MacPherson

Written words look boring if they look
the same way as they are in the dictionaries.
We spell them differently. Sometimes theydoesn’t
sound as they look. In thesepoems i wanted to
recreate the spoken sound of words in
written realm. Because it’s fun.
– Jan MacPherson

1.
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g
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)nin o keg) bizprsip()il gg
(s c((ni
c n(nngnina)epe

2
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4.
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a
r
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e

ah mesniw )wg
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keegiiimu)ahu
wslttg scimitsrt pghsbs

tmi
gsntg)nd
pu

5.
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