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For Proscenium’s Friday Follies
Tag: humor
Kitchy
“Duck under the table and see what you can find,” was Father’s pat answer to the question of what was for dessert.
He was like that: quick-witted and full of comebacks. My husband is the same, and I compound the problem by walking into it every time:
“What have you got on tomorrow?” I’ll ask, innocently enough, to which he’ll inevitably respond:
“Shorts and a T-shirt.”
The trouble with this kind of humour is that it is never obsolete – the jokes are corny and usually elicit a moan rather than a chuckle, but they are also catchy and when the kids ask: “What are you up to?” I can’t help myself and reply:
“5’8”.”
(These groans are brought to you by the daily prompts of obsolete (Daily Addictions), compound (Fandango), and duck (Ragtag Community). Have a few zingers of your own? Leave them in the comments and I’ll promise not to laugh.)
Punctuation, Anyone?
I am contemplating the importance of punctuation when writing poetry.
Please be advised that I am not an expert – either of the period or the poetic form –
just a woman, who having stumbled upon the possibility of penning a word or two,
has found herself questioning (which definitely needs a question mark, doesn’t it?)
Blogging has opened so many possibilities: some, who like me, seem to fall back on conventional uses and others, who choose to ignore punctuation at all; and I am second guessing myself.
Does the end of a line of poetry infer pause, or is a comma useful? Do semi-colons even have a place in verse, or are they reserved for the monotony of prose. Dashes, quotations marks, italics – all surely deserve a place.(?)
Am I mired in the muck of high school grammar, missing out on true freedom of expression, or; is punctation the punch that adds meaning to my dribble?
What do you think?
