On the organisation of words

If you were to look up my bowel

you’d find

the ugliness

of bad punctuation:

distended hyphens

with gaping mouths

and dumb

pointing fingers:

look at me,

I lead you somewhere

and I’ll show you where.

All you need

is commas

and full stops.

Semi-colons

are for the faint of heart.

Hyphens are like

boulders

perturbing the stream.

To dream, to dream, to dream,

perchance to write,

beautiful, complete sentences

that speak and give light;

but sometimes

you have to break your own

rules.