Raymond Luczak
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[Poem]

"Sign language should be as extinct as the dodo bird!"
--Helen E. Waite, author of a book on Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy, March 26, 1960

Without sign language, Helen Keller wouldn't have discovered the holy water, nor Ms. Waite the royalties accrued.
These days when medical technology isn't enough to cure one's ailing sight and diminishing hearing--all those side effects of growing old-- the good old language of touch will have to do, and sing.

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Raymond Luczak is the author of eight books, the most recent of which is Whispers of a Savage Sort: And Other Plays About the Deaf Experience. He is also one of the featured poets in Deaf American Poetry, available at https://www.clercscar.com/books