with less sympathy      
and more prescience       
I could have made       
a difference – I suppose 
I didn’t see too much      
awry in butchered words       
and sentences       
that made no sense 
they needed only write      
for me without restraint       
their keenness overcame       
my vested commonsense 
some would learn a      
way with words eventually       
but most displayed       
an awkward reticence 
I’d say I failed to teach      
the language arts as I       
was meant but rest my       
case as I can see 
today they’d be the      
morphing queens of       
SMS in cyber speak’s       
ascendancy     
© 26 June 2009, I. D. Carswell


 
 
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