Jane had a haircut last night over by our old apartment, she looks like a superstar fashion model now. While in the old neighborhood she picked up subs from Penn Station and they screwed up the order, I wanted a reuben and ended up with a salami and pickle sandwich (I know WTF? someone ordered a salami and pickle on purpose?!?). They have the best fries and I am a sucker for a fried potato so I ate those with malt vinegar and was willing to let it all go but Jane was on the horn directly and went back to the store to have the wrong righted. She (Saint Jane supermodel) was back in a jiffy with the correct order and a card entitling the bearer to some free food for all our troubles, woo-hoo.We feasted and watched the inauguration parade and 24 (DVR'd) because Jack kicks ass and I went to bed at around 9:00 and Jane stayed up, probabley to chat with her high class supermodel friends (with whom I am not in the same league). (I use way too many parenthesis, I know) (I don't care) (obviously)
Oh, nobody was seriously hurt in the mini-van inferno pictured in the foreground, but a fireman did complain that the cold water made his finger tips feel all "tingly".
This older "unofficial" student in my poetry class last semester had a habit of asking longwinded questions at the very end of a nearly 3 hour class period and one evening, she decided to wonder aloud after we had all packed up:
ReplyDelete"I noticed that this poem uses parentheses, and I was wondering if there was a rule about that, because /I/ always was told that you should avoid using parentheses in your poem, so is there a rule about that when you write poetry?"
The class sat in silence for a while and then (because I was missing the beginning of Sarah Connor Chronicles before it went overbearing and annoying) I said "If you want to use them, just USE them."
I like parentheses. And semi-colons.
I like elipsis - es...
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