Punctuation
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Dear Emily Dickinson,
Reading your poetry has inspired me to write some of my own. In particular, I've noticed your proclivity for using a certain punctuation mark in your work. Please enjoy:
More Dashes
Fuck.
... ... ...
Might as well start this
With my best foot forward.
Do you want the story?
Emotional exploring?
A lot has happened
In the last 20 years.
... ... ...
Relatively so.
Richard Drew took a beautiful picture;
Everybody whines
It's a tragedy
All I see is exactly how I feel
when I want to flee
You--spill over margins,
between lines
lace ink
with weakness--Your--
trembling fingers
aching viscera
cold sweats--pouring between shoulders,
and flinching limbs--blood pumped by,
I spend day after day listening to what's required,
Punctuation, previous knowledge or how I'm inspired,
Im tired,
repitition of a mission to seal up the fission
of a family, broken in vision.
It is an escape from reality,
reality that is at times hard to bear,
when nothing feels right,
and my heart aches to fit in,
but yearns for privacy,
that is when I sneak,
