Grammatically yours

by Beth - Scorpio

I called him a homophone 
once. 
He <i>(playfully)</i> punched me
 told me he was at perfect ease
 with his own <b>textuality</b><i> (thankyou very much)</i> and would I 
kindly not insult him that way.....
*sigh* 

we run headlong into the other
mouths open
words tumbling
(never mind the typo's )
he says it's my fault
I misconstrue, always
too often. 
he makes nonsensical interchanges
he's unruly
he bends and twists and snaps, 
and I am left with a broken alphabet-
an ancient relic of a language I do not know- one
I never learnt.

He says I am confusion-
chaos-
I over punctuate, leave him 
feeling pulled after exclamations and 
paused, alert waiting for the semi-colon to drop
only to be side tracked by parentheses.

He dots his i's with smiley faces
(always in the wrong places)
he never did c....
never did understand
the exceptions ....

<i>(I am parentheses and he is every exclamation point!)</i> 

Like atheism, 
for us
the rules simply don't apply. .........

Birth sign: Scorpio
Date created: 2008-05-20 02:58:06
Last updated: 2021-03-03 14:47:09
Poem ID: 71802

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