An Ode to Commas

Come on, comma! Complicate completely, my carefully crafted creation, my poem.

Add length to a list, you're always listing, it's absolutely lovely!

Come on, comma! Make my voice, give me cadence with my choice of words. Make this seem and sound more human, subtly weaving, trying to lose myself in the rhythm and the flow, and before you know it, the sentence is through.

Wow, that was a long one.

Come on, comma! You semi-semi-colon. You novice author's crutch, my reason for bad grades. Do your job and make this written word seem lively. Is this a poem? Well, I guess that's up to you.

Come on, comma! You underground apostrophe, I know that you know better, do your job! Get on the ground and trail my thoughts together.

As a rule, near-constantly, your syntactical power inspires me to write my thoughts out rhythmically, in time with the pattern only you can see, you make what's boring worth a read, oh comma...

How I love thee.

-CH