The ASL User's Lament

It's unbelievable, isn't it?

About the time the hands find
Parameters right from my mind
Behind the screen in DeafRead
I see and read you.

Between the blogs and vlogs
Among the bottles of beer
Over the olives and martini
I taste and drink you.

Inside the blogs and vlogs
On the shoulders of Eternity
Around my neck tightened collar
I feel and touch you.

Next to the cochlear implant writers
During their last ovations
Below the babble of vloggers
I don't and won't read you.

From the language and culture of the Deaf
To the Sidekick or Blackberry vibrating,
An hour after bewitching
I still hear and use ASL.