My Word of the Month poem

BULLETIN: Michelle Barnes was kind enough to feature me on her blog today. If you’re interested, here’s the link. Thanks Michelle! http://michellehbarnes.blogspot.com

Hi everyone,

Yesterday I was without Internet all day. I hope that Mediacom finally fixed whatever was wrong in the area. I used my unplanned downtime to write a poem inspired by this month’s word, LEAVES.

A Cautionary Tale
by David L. Harrison

Eats, shoots, and leaves
Reminds how punctuation
Misapplied deceives.

Imagine the panda’s trauma,
Branded a scurvy bandit,
Besmirched by a misplaced comma!

Deranged by the comma’s curse,
Distraught he ran amok
From petty crime to worse.

Brandishing an eraser,
He corrected every sign
As the infamous defacer.

Hardly a comma was left
When the posse put him down,
Leaving his widow bereft.

But even as she grieves
She edits his epitaph:
Eats Shoots and Leaves.