I heard pawpaw said
with the first paw
sounding like the first pa in papaya.
I gave it a try in a shop.
Far from hitting her like a bomb,
she came to the party and took it with aplomb;
she said she was studying linguistics
and was intrigued by the variation.
I said, 'You hear it in a Carib nation.'
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem