I dreamt of your words;
There - on my screen - were your sentences,
All with proper punctuation:
Colons and semi-colons,
And not one ellipsis.
I opened the emails and saw your paragraphs.
They had meaning.
They said something.
They made me think.
Last night I dreamt you wrote to me,
But this morning I awoke
And remembered.
You're gone.
You’ve sent me nineteen words
and one exclamation point.
I was hoping for an ellipsis ...
There - on my screen - were your sentences,
All with proper punctuation:
Colons and semi-colons,
And not one ellipsis.
I opened the emails and saw your paragraphs.
They had meaning.
They said something.
They made me think.
Last night I dreamt you wrote to me,
But this morning I awoke
And remembered.
You're gone.
You’ve sent me nineteen words
and one exclamation point.
I was hoping for an ellipsis ...
So good, so clever.
ReplyDeleteThank you!
ReplyDeleteVery nice! All this and no "thats"!
ReplyDeleteNow that's funny! ;-)
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