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Consider giving up ings
vowels complex sentences
abandoning adjectives
nothing left to parse
spin a weave of
silent sound bytes
paperless symbols
unrestrained by punctuation
string word remnants together
until naked towers of
abbreviations slang and symbols
strip bare the raw meat of language
once the essence
of human experience
spit out the masticated pulp
decorate with a smiley face
not all that much to lol about
This poem first appeared in Linnet’s Wings (November 2010).
Used here with the author’s permission.
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Anita S. Pulier is a retired attorney who, many years ago, traded legal writing for poetry. She and her husband, Myron, pursue a bi-coastal life between New York City and Los Angeles, where they are daily hikers in the NYC parks and the Santa Monica mountains. Anita has been very involved in the Southern California poetry community and, recently, even Myron (a retired psychiatrist) has taken up poetry! Anita’s poems have appeared in numerous print and online journals and her work is included in nine print anthologies. The author of multiple collections, her most recent is Paradise Reexamined. Learn more about Anita at http://psymeet.com/anitaspulier/main/index.php.
    
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erinsnana:
I love your poem! I do not text--nor will I, for it diminishes language.
Posted 10/06/2012 10:19 PM
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dotief@comcast.net:
I have always been enamored of the subtleties of language and how the omission of a mere comma can totally change the meaning of a sentence. So much is lost in the modern media. It is so easy to misinterpret, and this poem understands that. And I am not laughing either.
Posted 03/04/2012 08:32 AM
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