Prolegomenon

I am no bard nor peaty voiced actor  
to master the trodden stage planks of old,  
but a high and low brow cross-bred factor  
who likes his English both peaty, and bold,  
and to pulsate forever on a page    
as much as it might ever do if heard  
when uttered upon some elegant stage  
favored to hark only the finest word,  
mulled...excruciatingly phonemic...  
all for fear of his own voice resounding  
like something too terribly anemic  
for an audience all too astounding;  
with a godlike savvy of the medium,  
and worthy, of a sovereign proscenium!