#lost language

Paul Klee

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Things Found In A Piano

A piano tuner told me what he found in the pianos of mansions along Lake Michigan:

blind mice, business cards of salesman who knocked on doors fifty years

before, a febrile cat, a brassy antique ring that belonged to a dead

debutante. It was surprising, he said, how many people cut their fingernails

while sitting on the bench of a baby grand, how much human

skin drifts over the keys. Once, he removed a sparrow: ten strings cut, the beating  of wings like the beating of your heart.

African Americans everywhere we have found a secret language our ancestors from slavery developed to keep between us so we can have dialects between each other . Would bring a sense of community .

A lot of us have been learning it fast in just a few days of knowing about it . It somewhat comes natural . We also have our own heritage flag . We create group chats and have a vetting process to make sure the people are African Americans only so we can learn between us

It leaves you wondering for sometime but you know there's no use pondering over a question you have no answer to. So you shrug it off and enjoy the lyrics that are so familiar yet strange to your tongue.

Just Saying that between the rhyming slang gay language of Polari and Eve Polastri there’s only 2 letters...