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It sometimes is a testing trial

To think of things that make me colon close bracket

And when life really gets me down

My face displays a sullen colon open bracket

It should be easy, don’t you think

To see life through a cheeky semicolon close bracket

But that eye’s never winked for me

They both close, and I cannot see

So I’ve decided, what I’ll do

To keep expressions pure and true

Is knock punctuation on the head

And use some fucking words instead!

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Comments

<Deleted User> (5812)

Wed 11th Feb 2009 09:10

great poem Simon, and very clever...this made me smile in a semi-colon closed bracket kind of way. it's on a par with lol and other horrors (that i use too)

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Siren

Tue 10th Feb 2009 11:25

Thanks, Clarissa and Janet. I thought seriously about using the actual symbols (actually, not 'seriously', this isn't a serious poem) and it would read the same when I performed it. But I thought it makes it slightly more cryptic this way when read on the page. Also, the poem is a sort of protest against glib emotional symbolism - I have never typed one in my life, and I'm not about to start now. :-)

<Deleted User> (5646)

Tue 10th Feb 2009 11:02

Why not just include a smiley instead.
Or a browny frowny.
:-) :-(

Nice poem Simon,
Janet.x

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clarissa mckone

Tue 10th Feb 2009 02:11

HI Simon, I like this poem!

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Siren

Mon 9th Feb 2009 23:17

Thanks Andy. It's usually a no-no to write really obvious rhymes but for this poem it was absolutely necessary.

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Andy Williamson

Mon 9th Feb 2009 22:42

This is class !!

I love the way you write the punctuation marks in full. It really highlights today's SMS culture.

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