01-28-2013, 02:18 AM
This feels like a schoolteacher's rhyme to help her students learn grammar
As someone who's always correcting apostrophes and being resented for it I enjoyed this a lot. I especially liked how in the fourth verse you excused the ungrammatical use of "don't" by calling attention to it in the next lines. I also like the title, which sounds like the diagnosis of a man who rubs his legs and grunts whenever an apostrophe's used correctly (I like to think he'd ruin his jeans after reading this comment...). A warm and funny poem; thank you for the read
As someone who's always correcting apostrophes and being resented for it I enjoyed this a lot. I especially liked how in the fourth verse you excused the ungrammatical use of "don't" by calling attention to it in the next lines. I also like the title, which sounds like the diagnosis of a man who rubs his legs and grunts whenever an apostrophe's used correctly (I like to think he'd ruin his jeans after reading this comment...). A warm and funny poem; thank you for the read
"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges." - Gene Wolfe