... can't think of what to say
elapsed ellipses... hesitate
thoughts stapled somehow run on -
dashing dashes now long gone
sit waiting for what colons excrete:
to sweat, to push, to force, to squeeze;
semicolons set more easily
parenting protection of parens
(herding words like mother hens)
commas, sleeping, curled on the path
words slowed to silence as they pass
A capital stands alone as king
trailed by smaller underlings
[brackets] block and set aside
fenced in words they cannot hide
firmly erect upright upstanding
forthright loud and so demanding!
hunched and haggard under its own weight
is the mark of a question an unhealthy shape?
italics come from Italy
where in Pisa they learned to lean
things we say are bound and gagged
with marks in front and then in back
some curled
some straight
some going "stag"
ironic in the broadest sense
that the smallest mark
brings it all to an end.
Love it! The last line is the piece de resistance. Very good, my friend. It puts my today's poetic entry to shame. Also enjoyed the play on "punctual." What more can I say -- a gem!
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