"Simplified Spelling"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 4/22/2008 10:23 AM, LanDi Liu wrote:
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>What a cool meter.  Is that really "i" at the end, or "1"?

Mea culpa.  In my source it looks like a small cap I, and I did not
recite as I copyedited.  The last two lines should of course be:

my hart with that harts in akord
     my mind and thare minds r as 1

Joel



>On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:11 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> >  Subject:      "Simplified Spelling"
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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
> >
> >  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
> >
> >  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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