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      August 6, 2021Lizard TonguesRaymond Hammond

      what if religious nutjobs
      who whoop and holler in tongues
      weren’t real nutjobs at all
      but idiot savants who
      spew from their faithful frothing
      minds a presumed heavenly
      language that can only be
      described as a gibberish
      when what was actually
      uttered was a bona fide
      ancient alien language
      that lay dormant buried deep
      in our ancient lizard brains
      deep down in the basilar
      brainstem from when we were brought
      or dropped off on this planet
      an extinct latent language
      that only the dinosaurs
      last heard in supplication
      to the gods to intervene
      to stop their mass extinction

      Raymond Hammond

      “I was born, raised, and lived in Appalachia for the first half of my life. Appalachia culture gave me the lyrical lilt of mountain folk, potato soup suppers with spontaneous folk music, fire and brimstone homilies and hymns, and the ability to spin a story using metaphors every which way from Sunday. The Appalachian Mountains themselves gave me solace in solitude and a faith in something greater than religion.”

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