Roll up for
the great punctuation sale
we’ve got thousands of capital letters
from the estate of e.e.cummings
a rare comma said to have been used by Mark Twain
look out for a lovely collection of semi-colons
found in the attic of Kurt Vonnegut, Jnr
Come early for
this event of a lifetime
marvel at the short macho sentences
discovered in a bar frequented by Hemingway
ampersands half price and thorns ten a penny
em-and-en dash will be playing live.
Also for sale
today and only today
a bundle of deleted ellipses
from a sloppy first draft sci-fi romp
a well-kept selection of Greek-born pillcrows
be sure to bid for the mix of tilde and full stop
which is meant to indicate sarcasm
Everything must go.
Everything, must go.
Everything. Must go.
Everything must; go.
Everything – must – go
and so on.
