Written in Grammar Class, 2008

For Becca, one of my favorite proper nouns.

You are a comma in my life,

You make me pause before I speak or decide without thought,

You link parts of me together and

make sense of my complicated-ness.

You are a period sometimes.

(Called a full-stop in England.)

You bring my foolishness to an end.

You make new things begin.

You're an exclamation point

adding excitement and passion

to my monotony!

You're a question mark

You make me ponder my ways

Make me think?

and give me some intonation.

Maybe you're a semi-colon;

we talk about serious stuff.

No out of place jokes;

that's for when our interactions are essays.

You're the adjective to my noun, the adverb to my verb-

bestowing clarity and helping me explain.

How many times have you edited my life?

(Author's rights.)

You say:

Don't worry about being singular.

One of these days I will make you plural.

Don't write too much in past or future tense, and

don't live in the passive voice.

Now for the prepositions:

I will call you up,

call you out,

call you over,

call you near,

call you in,

call you down,

call you through,

call you beyond.