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How to Pronounce: Peckham

*After Nate Marshall’s Pronounce

- Caleb Femi

pĕk

Fold your lips like uniform of de ... boy. Parents said it was when he was most happy so they buried him in it along with 24 classmates’ colouring pencils, not the right kind of stick that’ll keep at bay the jaw of news jingle: another one de … look … see how the mourning hangs in the air as if thick pollen and like all fevers not everyone is affected. Mrs George (flat beneath us), who can’t hear too good and turns the volume to the max during Countdown says it’s a shame what you people do to each other.

Now punch the sound through even though the nasal clasps in the way fingers of the brothers who didn’t think he would actually d..

nărm

This time the tongue leans on the mouth’s roof like winter on the shoulder of these blocks trying to catch its breath; the right place to find a really bad day or stashes of hard food though we be manning them most times.

We must have watched a Vietnam war film and saw a regular Tuesday

just more confetti. Though their trenches weren’t suspended corridors like ours, the gist was the same.

Peckham [pĕk nărm]

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