Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Exclamation Points!

So many! So many!
Exclamation points!
So many! So many!
Whole thing’s out of joint!

Edgy!?! Frightened!?! Nervous!?! Scared!?!

Why are there so many there!?!

Jumping out! Boo! Hark!

Surrounding even question marks!?!

Reading it! Mercy me!

Giving me PTSD!

Surely this must stop now! Oh!

No! No! No! No! No! No! No!

Don’t dare read it in a crowd!

Way too urgent! Way too loud!

And it isn’t getting better!

HEREIN COME THE CAP’TAL LETTERS!

MUCH TOO FREQUENT APPLICATION!

FOR A POEM ‘BOUT PUNCTUATION!

MAKE IT STOP! I’M TELLING MOMMA!

USE A PERIOD! OR COMMA!

NOPE! NO WAY! POETRY!

TURNED INTO CACOPHONY!

YIPES! JINKIES! ZOUNDS! ZOINKS!!

SO MANY! SO MANY!

EXCLAMATION POINTS!