national punc day

no that wasnt a misspelled tribute to thugs and
neerdowells but yesterday was national punctuation day
and i missed it even though i am a word nerd i have even
been accuzed of being a word nazi which was harsh although
ive been known to fuss at friends for misuseing
apostrophes and semicolons i edit facebook
posts when i see the autocorrect made a mistake two
so how could i not know that punctuation has its
own day
how i say
i am so ashamed
an uneditted poem my penance



(c) ellen gillette, 2014