[better] — Lingua Franca

But here is its miracle — in that flattened, fractured, simplified speech, someone says I am afraid , and you understand not because the grammar is right but because the need is universal.

Lingua franca is the language of strangers becoming temporary friends, of orders given and understood without loyalty, of survival dressed in a few hundred words.

Here’s a short piece titled — written as a reflective prose poem. Lingua Franca