I think many of them are frustrated by the thinness and inadequacy of ordinary spoken language, of ordinary contact even with the people they know best and love best.
OK, I'll be off", is a return of an ordinary speaking voice that allows a breathing space so that the final lines, promising the dawn of a new poetry, are earned.
Lebel learned his vernacular English from Ginsberg and Burroughs in the streets of New York just as they, like Ezra Pound and Whitman and Blake before them, sought to gather the "muscular" rhythms and the images of the ordinary spoken language.
It is estimated that literate people have a reading vocabulary, consisting of words that are encountered only in reading and writing, that may be more than double the size of their ordinary speaking vocabulary.
It speaks the language ordinary people speak, and it acknowledges the reality of ordinary people's lives.
Ordinary people speak alongside heads of state; military men alongside poets; bystanders and perpetrators and victims.
I have seen academic colleagues become so enchanted by zombie nouns like heteronormativity and interpellation that they forget how ordinary people speak.
Ordinary Iraqis speak their names with more than a hint of bitterness: Hakim, Sadr, Maliki, Chalabi, Ayad Allawi, Barzani, Talabani, Hashimi, Dulaimi, Mutlak.
So in addition to campaigning for equality they will be able to voice their opinions on other matters – bringing a new richness and diversity to politics as more ordinary people speak up.
On Facebook, the voices of ordinary people speak louder than big corporations.
