Friday, June 15, 2012

A Life Without Periods, And, Comments on Commas,


I never dreamt it would happen to me, But it happened, just out of the blue, Two days ago without warning,

I’ve always had a plethora of periods gracing my life, those tiny little dots at the end of sentences, For me, it started back in grade school, The very first time I printed my first sentence, I remember my teacher’s name was Miss Daisy Rose, She was very strict about putting periods in the proper place, at the end of each sentence,

Here I am having gone almost 72 times around the sun, And now I have lost the capability of placing periods at the end of sentences! Or rather, it’s because of my computer keyboard, "Who’da thunk it”, as singer-song writer Greg Brown was wont to say, Two days ago, at 4:31p,m, in the middle of writing a piece of poetry, the periods just quit, PERIOD , , ,

How frustrating to have to have run-on lines, phrases, and hugely long poems! Because I couldn’t end them, since I couldn’t insert a period anywhere, So, I printed up a copious supply of huge commas and put them where needed! AND THAT REALLY DID THE TRICK, IT TOOK CARE OF THE PROBLEM,

I mean, poets get to break the rules whenever they want, They have a special exemption other writers envy, Those poor souls are required to follow common usage rules for punctuation, And Whether to capitalize Or not , , , another poets' Exemption,

However, the biggest difficulty was with the Internet, Some URL addresses are downright fussy about periods and commas, Like   ,com and www,   and other such use of periods, I tried apostrophees like   'com or www,'   But that didn't work either,

I think I need to go and have a cup of tea ,  ,  ,  Constant Comma perhaps,

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