Texting
Los Angeles Times readers submitted their views in verse for a feature dedicated to opinion poetry.
(Anthony Russo / For The Times )
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
A retired attorney in L.A., the author is a published poet.
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