by Jessica A. Tucker

Created on: November 26, 2010   Last Updated: December 09, 2010

Thoughts fly through frequencies high

By letter, syllable, or smiley face

From mother to daughter, friend to friend

Another text message sent, received beeps.

Shortened versions, simplified words

Keystrokes click, entered blurb by blurb.

The English language taught, shredded apart

Stripped, exposed to the barest of bones,

Vowels forgotten, punctuation dissolved,

Ingrained teachings exchanged for sound.

Now, what would our great fathers and ancestors

Of word, such as, Shakespeare or Chaucer

Think of this contrived and condensed form

Of the words and rules they so strictly conformed?

Their words broken, shattered, torn.

Broken words, sent. Receiving…

Send text messages conveniently communicating.

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