Language: A Story With Rhyme and Reason

Whatever else may be dead, language is not.

But what shall we do with it?

Stand in front of each other

Hold it in boxes

Trade it like cards .

Thank you for your article (Sept. 8, Poetic Justice) covering some of the poetry venues in the South Bay. Both the writing and the photography were impressive and welcome. If there were some regular reporting of this quality on such events. . . . Well, there won’t be. But the Los Angeles Times’ occasional coverage is welcome.

Thanks to the Times for calling .

Thanks for showing where

Whatever else may be dead, language is not.

We could just use it

Someone could speak and someone could listen

It’s not often that someone listens

thanks for the pictures that froze us in poses

proving not only words live .

GARY SABADASH

San Pedro