please do not
puncture my poetry
with unwanted or
wanton punctuation
commas i suppose
are required for prose
but totally unnecessary
for terse purple verse
better to be clean
in your cummings
and goings than to
leave a blot or dot
and if you cannot
decide where to pause
feel free to break laws
but be warned that
the punctuation police
are determined to deter
any pregnant poets
who miss a period
Melissa hosts poetics at dVerse and prompts us to write sans punctuation
a poem in my pocket 