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My Life in 81 Words MAG

July 3, 2010
By yes_i_am SILVER, Faizabad, Other
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yes_i_am SILVER, Faizabad, Other
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Favorite Quote:
"not all those who wander are lost"

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A stash of strangled
“I wills”
“I wishes”
“I could haves”
and
“sorrys”
all the punctuations in the right places
exclamation, exclamation exclamation!
sweet, maddening regrets

never take commas for granted –
they will ruin you
pause you break you interrupt you
make “ ” in the air
to show *you* didn't say anything stupid
missed out the apostrophe;
don't anticipate –
nothing more to come,
but
nothing short of a grammatical catastrophe,
capital letters only for proper nouns
and god,

and Now
Full Stop.

© Greg K., New Lenox, IL

The author's comments:
Notice something?I am violating most of the Rules of Punctuation here.Hope you like it.
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CrunchyCaroline said...
on May. 14 2012 at 5:42 am
i love to write  poems
yes_i_am SILVER said...
on Jul. 12 2011 at 9:36 am
yes_i_am SILVER, Faizabad, Other
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Favorite Quote:
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Thank you !
audball SILVER said...
on Jul. 11 2011 at 12:12 am
audball SILVER, Stanwood, Washington
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The irony is lovely. Nice :)
private eye said...
on Aug. 1 2010 at 6:18 am
u go girl ;)