Beware the grammar gangsters!
The mafia of the literary underworld.
They saunter into stanzas,
Weapons concealed
Under their trench coats
Or in violin cases.
They can make you talk,
"With just a few well-placed speech marks,"
Leave you shouting! Where you should have whispered!
And pulp your bold statements into quavering questions?
They can, pepper, your, phrases with, commas,
Or bring your piece to a dead.
Full.
Stop.
They'll trap you (between brackets)
As you - dash - to the exit.
Then: punch a blunted colon
Into the gut of your text
Or worse;
Force-feed you a poisonous semicolon,
Then hack/slash your work to shreds.
The grammar gangsters
Never leave survivors.
Readers discover the victims
In the back alleys of the library,
Bloodstained,
Left unfinished,
In a tommy-gun ellipsis...















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I have been sitting at my laptop, wondering when some inspiration would hit me... In the meantime, I just checked the new additions to Devart.
You are TALENTED. I just wish I could write something as clever as you did.
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I was going to post something, but I totally forgot what.
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being sad and single never killed anyone.....but im one flatline away from becoming the first!
I'm glad that was supposed to be humourous.
Because it made me squee delightedly on the inside.
As for critique... Uhm...
I'm no good at that because I grew up trying to find good in everything.
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I like my coffee like I like my women... In a plastic cup!
Or at least it'll make me squee quietly too
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Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind - Dr. Seuss
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Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind - Dr. Seuss
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Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind - Dr. Seuss
That makes me very happy. And it took no effort at all.
By the way, I hope you don't mind that that story that was kind of made out of the frustration that you had missing keys on the keyboard kind of made me write something about one of my own OCD (more specifically, tearing out paper from a notebook).
I have to say, it certainly cleared out a couple of blocked passageways in my brain.
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I like my coffee like I like my women... In a plastic cup!
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Strangers passing in the street
By chance do separate glances meet
And I am you and what I see is me...
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Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind - Dr. Seuss
the dead stop part, though, i feel, needs to be more emphatic. maybe leave out the conventional punctuations from the other lines when you're not trying to make a point about them (the punctuations)? it will make your use of them more significant.
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kmtr
"Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears."
- Albert Camus
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