The DEvltn of Wrd

what happens when words go to war?

In the beginning, there was the

Word

And that word curved in absurd triangles traced stencils and made sentences

Sentences then sang songs in forms of eons and a graphed the paths of paragraphs

Paragraphs split seeds,

Spit evil deeds and good intentions

And the glow grew 40 stories and the radiance was glorious

Furious was the Darkness and Ignorance ignored the brilliance

They mixed vowels, dangled participles, crossed T’s and dotted I’s

And writer’s block was born in the sighs of demised cries

The consonants constantly ran amok,

Chaos engulfed the grammar

Tragically trimming the wisdom with a dyslexic hulking hammer

Dictionaries cannibalized encyclopedias and Thesaurus saw us

Red pens slinked from the sludge and tattooed the town

Hymns and ballads were the first to go down

And we locked ourselves in the tower of intellect and creation

Our station brke aprt and couldn’t reach anee for communeekation

The alfa wuz flawed and beta got klostrfobic

S-O-S!

Ess-oh-ess!!

SMH, LOL, LMFAO and broken sell fones

Weve mass prodused clones and tumors that eat Poemz

All Phucked now, we stare as the siti wallz collapse

Wee neede Halp, the dronz have breeched the system

Homo fones wit boms disman(tell) tha Wizdom

Is anneeone out there?

Kum bak home

Kum bak h…

Transmission terminated…

 

Author's Note

Monroe says:
Prewriting is for punkasses

Reviews

[Crowley]

Wrapped up in lace and sewiside bombers.....amazing what it has come down to. One thought on the texting language....we all think that its bullshit and ruining our kids lives, but in corporate america, the top nuts would kill for someone to come up with that kind of efficiency in everday business. Sweet writing, glorious message now hold your hand out I'm going to give you a Benjamin for your troubles and then borrow it back so I can put a bet on a game. Soon as I win, I'll pay you back.

[shelbylugal]

Ahhhh another masterpiece that's Monroe! The way you wrote this was like the birth and termination of our language. How it began so small but then turned into something beautiful only to be tampered with from stuff like texting grammar that slowly began to transfrom and ruin it. It went from "that was so funny" to "Omg, lol, goooood one!!"

Beautiful piece of work:)

[Arsenic Nemesis]

Brilliant, I actually adore this! A fantastic vocabularly used throughout and really well structured - great job, keep it up!~

[Jason Galliger]

I love this. it captures the "life" and "transformation" that is language. You treat it here as a living creature, pulled along with the ebs and flows of the turning tides like the rest of us. I especially like the last couple of stanzas where the communication breaks down. This one line ("And that word curved in absurd triangles traced stencils and made sentences") ,however, seems rough to me, it's meaning isn't clear maybe clarify. Otherwise a grt pc!

[Nobody.]

Nicely done....the birth, life and death of language as told by the bearded guy who stands in the shadow that eternity casts. I still have hope that one day soon....we can write the resurrection and cheer as the OMG WTF ROFLs are cast into those pigs who jump from the cliff directly thereafter. Good stuff man!
Cheers!
Timmy the Tooth