For International Mother Language Day, enjoy “Peelin Orange”, a poem in Jamaican Patois by Mervyn Morris OM, a distinguished Jamaican poet and scholar, who was born on this day in 1937. In 2014, he was appointed Jamaica’s first post-Independence Poet Laureate.

"Dem use to seh
yu peel a orange
perfec
an yu get new clothes..."

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