No One Reads My Poems But Google

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The semicolon in that line is because the pause should be longer to indicate a distance. I often do that, make distinctions between things with a semicolon. Making hard distinctions. It's something I made up, and usually there's no reason for anyone to notice unless it's made to stand out. When you see a sign like a semicolon you feel it in your reading and you go on, rather than taking the trouble to actually pause. You feel the logic of the pause and go on.

The comma at the end of the quotation carries on with the rest of the sentence. Anyway, I don't want a sentence started and the emphasis of sound the beginning of a new sentence requires. I don't want an 'and' either, as in, 'and instantly...'

Things can make sense here, even in context, but they don't have to. Everything's all right with me, even if it makes me sound ignorant.