I am celebrating  World Poetry Day with language-themed poems.

Now for something light, here is the third poem, ‘langwij’ which was quoted in Txtng: the Gr8 Db8 by David Crystal.  Now, don’t go labeling me a language /grammar purist!  Though I prefer to text and tweet with very little txtspk.

“langwij”

langwij
is hi-ly infectious

children
the world ova
catch it
from parence
by word of mouth

the yung
r specially vulnerable
so care
shud b taken how langwij
is spread

symptoms include acute
goo-goo
& the equally serious ga-ga

if NE child
is infected with langwij
give em
3 Tspoons of txt
b4 bedtime
& 1/2 a tablet of verse
after every meal

– Dr. Silver