Poems and Thoughts    by Frank Maurer

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Dialects. Are we really so different--creature and human? We laugh at or admire the Scottish dialect. We diminish or romanticize the Southern dialect. We swoon or feel inferior to the English dialect. How do we react to the dialects uttering the danger calls of Prairie Dogs? How do we evaluate the evening chorus of the Red-winged Black birds-- Vocalizing with differing dialects among flocks habitating the East or the West? Differing dialects; differing tones; different speed of utterance; Our Reptilian Brain crys: "Us and them". Even our vocalizations delimit us Just like "those creatures"! Frank Maurer 24 November 2022 1745 Hours