(Poem #110 on new numbering scheme)
A toddler child is staggering along with his mother and grandmother. The mom patters on with words - typical mother-speak. She points at some man, says, "Bye-bye hae."* The boy smiles. He says "Ba!"
– a nonnet
* linguistic note: the borrowing from English, “bye” (and “bye-bye”), is pretty fully nativized in Korean, used as an informal farewell by many people. “Bye-bye hae [해]” would mean “say bye-bye.” Of course, in Korean pronunciation, “bye” is two full syllables, “ba-i” (and “bye-bye” is four), and that breaks my poem, but anyway the vowel break is elided and diphthongized, so I’m going with the English pronunciation I guess.
