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champagne
carrie champagne
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Canada, alberta, edmonton

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punctuation

is the grammarian baleful
waiting for the obligatory question

mark my words a comma
or a full end stop
will not rectify the need

to place parentheses around asides
as if they hold an inside joke in close
bracketed curves

a colon digests my ideas into a list
snapped off a line of meaningless
capitals and vowels and consonants

that parade predicate phrases
about faces the subject

punctuate this discussion
period

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BethShanFan Comment by: BethShanFan - 2008-05-04 08:27
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hahahaha, i love it! i'm somewhat of a grammar freak myself, except when it comes to typing. :-P (i mean, you'll never find ":-P" in any grammar book will you?) so anyway, this poem spoke to me. hahahaha.
Wildefriend Comment by: Wildefriend - 2008-05-01 06:31
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This is a wonderful piece! I especially like the double-edged line "The colon digests my ideas into a list" That's delicious, shall we say? I'm surprised you didn't throw any "carets" into the mix or maybe a "circonflex" or two. :-)
ParchmentPoetry Comment by: ParchmentPoetry - 2008-04-26 17:12
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simply loved it and it was relatively easy to follow even without punctuation marks only one thing I would change the places where you break some of the lines as I think it would aid in more understanding and i did it all without caps or punctuation or line breaks you go girl lol janet
mikepyro Comment by: mikepyro - 2008-04-26 14:52
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god, there's so many punctuation errors in this piece!, where do I evern start?
oh wait.

very funny and enjoyable little piece.
Juan2 Comment by: Juan2 - 2008-04-26 13:17
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Fun, argumentative poem. I too enjoy the wordplay, found the 'parentheses' and 'inside joke' especially amusing, then was hit with a visual and a smile at 'a colon digests...' You've captured a solid rhythm with the line breaks and it's easy to follow along in the poem, which is really a challenge when unpunctuated - but to me that's the point of the poem, you don't need punctuation every time: sometimes the words do all the talking :) Well done.

happy writings.
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