Punctuation
Punctuation Punctuation is the tiny traffic crew inside every sentence a comma waves one orange cone and says slow down take a breath don’t crash your ideas together a period sits at the end like a calm, serious button saying we’re done here you can rest now question marks curl like curious cats tilting their heads asking are you sure what do you mean what happens next exclamation points jump up and down like popcorn in a pan like a kid who just heard ice cream is for dinner they cannot whisper they only shout quotation marks are little arms lifting someone else’s voice holding it gently in the air so it doesn’t fall parentheses are secret pockets tucked into a sentence’s jacket where extra thoughts hide like snacks saved for later a colon stands like a doorway ready to introduce something important drumroll in two dots a semicolon is a thoughtful pause not quite stopping not quite going like standing in the middle of a bridge deciding which way to look and me I am the builder placing ...
