"Simplified Spelling"

[LanDi Liu]

What a cool meter.  Is that really "i" at the end, or "1"?

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:11 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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>  the simplified speling bords stand
>       4 the shorter and uglier word
>  they want the old fashund stuf cand
>       joshbillingsgate stuf is preferd
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>  and i in the noshun rejoic
>       it shud hav bin dun long b4
>  4 my ego in finding a voic
>       is making my cranium sor
>
>  i find it a heluva strain
>       2 but in2 yor colum by hek
>  and i think in the end that my brain
>       wil telescope in2 my nek
>
>  in the small of my bak theres a kink
>       and the rapid sukseshin of shocks
>  is putting my chin on the blink
>       and merging my nees with my hocks
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>  but the thing that most hurts me i swear
>       is more than a fizical wo
>  tis the fact that the forid i wear
>       is becuming uncomonly lo
>
>  i wunc had a brow that was hi
>       with the thots in it lofty and wide
>  but now it sags over my eye
>       and theres nothing important in side
>
>  heres luk 2 the simplified bord
>       may they finish the work theyve begun
>  my hart with that harts in akord
>      my mind and thare minds r as i
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>  April 10, 1916]
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