I spent one summer with a semi-colon
in those days people called it shacking up
an expression implying poverty
and bondage what nonsense
despite his reputation the semi-colon
was gentle even tender I spent days
jumping off of his period nights
curled within his comma the strongest
most upstanding mark though also
the most hated I was stolen away
by a lowly parenthesis I am fairly comfortable
both of us in our dotage
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