We hereby give up The.
We relinquish long & lovely
spellings, like the luscious
inkiness of glamour.
We offer up italic,
using, as it does,
more energy than soap…
We end ellipses.
We sacrifice extrvgnt vowls
which have trvld
hlfwy round th wrld,
4 us 2 cn consme thm
out f seasn. 2 say nothing
of the heartless ongoing waste
of Silent E. Dubl letters,
too. we renounce the upprcase
as false idols. punctuation alowd
only in deep winter if w/ child