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Poem written by Philip Shultz, from one of his books :


                ATTENTION

More often than not, my wife deserves more
than I can give her, a balancing act of knowing
when to be visible, given her importance
to our complexity. My sons need less as they
grow older, one always less than the other.
My friends need more as they grow older.
The dead ones, especially. Even while asleep,
our dog needs some, tail beckoning. The more
our house gets, the more it needs. The walls
need to be thanked for their loyalty and patience,
the floors for suffering the weight of indifference.
I try not to feel too bad about my students.
Guilt is essential to our relationship, guilt,
persistence and a great serenity. My poems
poach nearly everything, my fears, schemes,
conjectures and astonishments, after evidence
of infidelity, scraps of inspiration. Indifferent to
the suffering they describe, they dislike everything
I love, believe only in their insularity. Because
I never really had one before, my career never
used to ask for much. Now, disguised as letters,
emails, phone calls, it never lets me forget it's there,
a new best friend whose only purpose is to prove
its inevitability. There's our town, its politics, scandals
and obligations, and all the fine, inescapable privileges
of citizenship in an idea no one understands anymore.
And, yes, the wars, of course, their constant scraping
fork-tongued self-aggrandizing exaggerations. Also,
my happiness, its stubborn, perverse vulnerability
that tries not to call attention to itself. Sometimes,
late at night, we, my happiness and I, reminisce,
lifelong antagonists enjoying each other's company.

If you want to listen to this poem, read by Philip Schultz himself, click on this link : 

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2010/06/weekly-poem-attention.html

 If you want to know more about him click on this link :

http://wn.com/Philip_Schultz

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabberwocky

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

'Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!'

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought--
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

'And has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

                               Lewis Carroll 

Vous pouvez l'écouter sur le site ci-dessous d'où il est tiré  : http://www.storyrhyme.com/stories/rhymes_chimes/jabberwocky/

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THE SOUND / b /

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THE SOUNDS /f/ AND /v/

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/pron/sounds/con_voiceless_5.shtml

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THE SOUNDS /k/ AND /g/

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start the video, click on the triangle) :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/pron/sounds/con_voiceless_4.shtml

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THE SOUNDS / w / and /v/

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/pron/sounds/con_other_7.shtml