Notes
10] your joint: your work or expression, as in "A Spike Lee Joint" (Lee's name for a film production).
11] vocab: recent abbreviation for "vocabulary" (esp. in foreign tongues, for which see OED "vocab").
game: pluck and mastery to win.
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Copyright © Sonnet L'Abbé 2006. Not to be republished without permission of the poet.
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Original text: Red Silk: An Anthology of South Asian Canadian Women Poets , ed. Rishma Dunlop, Priscila Uppal, and Hiro Boga (Toronto: Mansfield Press, 2004).
First publication date:
2004
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: 2006
Recent editing: 1:2006/2/16*1:2006/2/16*1:2006/2/16*1:2006/2/16
Rhyme: irregularly rhyming