Punctual Punctuation

A Poem by emipoemi

Give me a bunch of commas,

I will run my words with a motor mouth,

Taking the time to tack on the tally of details

Necessary to complete the cycle of my days,

My nights, my seasons, my senses, my dreams,

The love in my heart that plays the charms on a single string,

The life in my soul that prospers on a simple ember,

The consequential circumstance of being,

Whistling in the wind until I, short of breath,

Am rendered comatose;

Give me a bunch of dashes -

I bridge the space between my fragments -

Loosely linked and profoundly singular -

Identity is not defined as whole -

Even the world has a flip side -

I shine in the shadows -

I shadow the shines -

Hankering for hyphenation;

Give me a bunch of colons:

The elusive answers to my questions

Lie in exclamatory lists and records

Of parenthetical perspectives

At the margin of organic matter

That curb digestive carcinogens;

Give me a bunch of apostrophes

’N I’ll m’k elis’ns in my sp’ch

T’ pro’bly fash’n th’ ebb ’n flow o’ language

With a nat’ral grace;

Give me a bunch of ellipses

And….

Give me a bunch of periods.

(I need say no more)

-EDP

© 2022 emipoemi

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Moonie

I read a few of your other poems before stumbling upon this, and this is my favorite one yet. I like the whimsical nature of the poem and the puns you've included. I was waiting for a parentheses stanza to come up...something that starts off like:
Give me a bunch of parentheses
(instruments of extensive explanation).
so I may interrupt myself (repeatedly)
to squeeze in (superfluous) information

Lol, that was just my humble attempt. I found your poem very amusing! Thanks for sharing!