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period, comma MAG

October 26, 2022
By EmilyTheKiwi PLATINUM, Flemington, New Jersey
EmilyTheKiwi PLATINUM, Flemington, New Jersey
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Favorite Quote:
“Picture a wave. In the ocean. You can see it, measure it, its height, the way the sunlight refracts when it passes through. And it's there. And you can see it, you know what it is. It's a wave.<br /> <br /> And then it crashes in the shore and it's gone. But the water is still there. The wave was just a different way for the water to be, for a little while. You know it's one conception of death for Buddhists: the wave returns to the ocean, where it came from and where it's supposed to be."<br /> -The Good Place


not much separates
the period from the comma.
only a tiny,
stretched out line
indicates this change.
maybe it is merely a smudge,
the sentence already ended.
but then it is too late.
you realize it was not an end.
there was so much more
to the story.
you just chose to ignore it,


The author's comments:

Punctuation is always fun to play around with when writing poetry, and that’s exactly what I did when I wrote this poem. I wanted to use the usage of punctuation to convey meaning.


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