Then one day I told him, "Reg E., what is subordination for verbal measures to tonal consideration?"  And he handed me a black-and-white printed out thesis on a poet named Etheridge Knight and the oral nature of poetry, and from that point, Reggie stopped becoming the best to me, because what Etheridge Knight taught me was that I could make my words sound like music, even my small ones, the monosyllables,
有一天，我问说， ”Reg E. 什么是考虑音调的动量词附属词啊？“  他递给我一份白纸黑字的论文， 一篇关于诗人Etheridge Knight， 以及诗歌口头艺术本质的论文， 而从那一刻开始， Reggie对我来说，再也不是最好的了， 因为那个叫 Etheridge Knight的诗人让我明白， 怎样使我的诗词像音乐一样动听， 即使那些细小的部分，单音节词，