Gremlins of Speech: A Sonnet

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Gremlins of Speech

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

My friend I have tried to stable us right,
To steady my heart when guileless we fight.
Some gremlin our speech has shunted awry,
Into a bicker he switches it wrong,
Where nothing but crime as watchmen we cry,
When really it was our love-anguish song:
Like a whistle released, …