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Howie Good

Notes on Punctuation

Consider the period the smaller
of the cannonballs Galileo dropped

from the Tower of Pisa; the comma,
the lolling tongue of a dog; the colon,

the top two buttons left unbuttoned
on her filmy blouse; the semicolon,

an open fly; the exclamation point,
the one-finger salute or a bald man

doing a headstand; the question mark,
an exclamation point bent over with age.

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Howie Good is the author most recently of The Death Row Shuffle (Finishing Line Press), The Trouble with Being Born (Ethel Micro Press), and Gunmetal Sky (Thirty West Publishing).

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