Tuesday 9 January 2018

Foreign students, talking amongst themselves


so free, easy, comfortable
with their words for themselves.
Their world in their words,
their voices relaxed,
not loud, not quiet,
their privacy assumed? assured?

Listening in
I wonder who else must do the same -
surely someone recognises?
surely someone understands?
surely someone knows?
And like me, smiles to themself
to be privy to a word here and there?

Or simply they hear the smiles
behind the words?
Always the same
despite the language -
accent, dialect, delivery -

What does any group of people talk about happily?

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