Dear Tim,

Oh yes, enjoyed your addition to the humour !

Love
Alan

Alan,
i meant that humoursly; you got that right?
~tim

Well, until I read the protests above, I didn't even think of a confusion of vernaculars...it sounded like the first generation city child of hopelessly hillbilly parents all the way through the work, and there was (of course) the 'white boy rappin' stigma to the rhythms.  It fully explained the dialectics.

(Don't flinch at the word 'stigma'...I'm from a prior generation.  Along with George Carlin, I have this innate desire to tell white kids "Turn the baseball cap AROUND!  You act like you're black and cool; you're not!  You're white and you're lame!")

I thought it was a brilliant piece of satire, myself...right down to the final word, which, in perfect accord with the style of the speaker, was brilliantly MISused!

I darn near bifurcated myself, laughin'.

Dear AJ,

Thanks for the visit - yes the poem came from a challenge, but I was trying to imitate rap, so I listened to it to imagine it being rapped out, and tweaked it to sound OK that way.

Don't think I have a "style" unless making people laugh counts ?

Love
Alan

This is quite a unique way of expressing thoughts, which I respect, cause I think its important to have an individual style. Interesting use of words. 

I understand this came about from a challenge. Is that the reason why you've phrased the poem it in this way, or is this your style?

Dear Daniel,

Thank you, I think ! Does your visit imply approval, lol ? Or did you need to bifurcate somewhat unexpectedl y?

Love
Alan

HOPELESSLY BIFURCATED

The teen, ’e is a sack of woe
with doggerel texts an’ an urge to go
where life is cool
wit’ McDonalds gruel
an’ nobody takes ’im for a fool
the cowshed is the home for ’is bird
by rights, ’is every word is slurred
them clothes’s for throwin’ on da floor
cuz Mom’ll buy him ever more
of garish hue
or else “Screw you,
I ain’t gonna live in this slave state,
wot strips you of ev’ry bit o’ respec
’specks ya ta come fer ev’ry beck
an’ call, man, I gotta bifurcate”

Alan McAlpine Douglas

Challenge words : wo do te gr co st bi
to be made into words and used, I chose
woe doggerel texts gruel cowshed strips bifurcate
BEFORE writing the above