The Cosmopolitan You by O’Ketja (1967)
(There is only one man in the world. Carl Sandburg)
Go and see:
You could easily find
yourself in China
yourself in Russia
yourself in America
yourself everywhere…
But you need a language
to understand yourself
you need a language
to speak to yourself.
I am a Dane
but I vote for English
as a cosmopolitan language
because it doesn’t belong to one nation
but to more countries.
The beauty of English
if it is not your mother tongue
that is that feeling of growing
from nationalist to internationalist.
That day you feel yourself
a true cosmopolite
the sound of your cosmopolitan language
shall be pure music.
An edition of The cosmopolitan you
(1967)
The cosmopolitan you.
by O'Kejta.
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Last edited by Debbie Tam
August 8, 2014 | History
This is a pamphlet of poetry published by Outposts Publications. The pamphlet contains a dozen poems by O'Ketja. The poems include: The Cosmopolitan You, Unspoken Dreams, If I were a God, A Real Woman, The Night is Silent, Our World, Amanita Rubescens, You and I in Wonderland, Love, God Never Became Alive, Oh Cupid and Poetry.
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added by Debbie Tam.
This is the titular poem. It is also representative of the sentiment of the collection of poems in the pamphlet.
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| August 8, 2014 | Edited by Debbie Tam | Add the first poem of the collection. |
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