Empty Promises among the Symbols of the North
Ampersand, I love thee
Your curling collocation
Your lack of coloration
You have my adoration
You are so loverly
Percent, how you thrill me
Your arithmetical vocation
Your yin/yang vibration
Your loopy collocation,
You are so otherly.
Tilde, you turn me on
Your Andalusian insinuation
Your inverse connotation
Your nasally vibration
You are so smotherly
Asterisk, you do excite me
Your stellar implication
Your use for multiplication
Your saucy appellation
You are my brother, see
Question mark, interrogate me
Your cross-examination
Your puzzling fascination
Your wry investigation
You own me utterly.
Parentheses, encircle me
Your half-moon variation
Your pert association
Your sensual curvation
You give me (warm) fuzzies.
Semi-colon, look to me
Your winking calibration
Your statement termination
Your half-hearted declamation
You are my enemy
Exclamation point, you move me!
Your hint of excitation
Your heated provocation
Your upright figuration
Unnervingly you thrill me.
Quotation marks "you mock me"
Your purpose is citation
Your rules cause consternation
Your use moves punctuation
You tease me so slyly.
Hyphen, you confuse me
Your stop and go sensation
Your superfluous vibration
Your simple lineation
Your dash-like imitation
You strange anomaly
Unflinchingly, you bore me.
Caret, you accuse me
Your curves cause excitation
Your snooty connotation
Your pointed indignation
Your unpopular privation
You are a pox upon me
Colon, I feel you in me
Your two-fold circulation
Your digestive ministrations
Your circuitous truncation
Your sudden liquidation
Put me out of my misery.
Backtick, you ire me
Your insane emaciation
Your crazy reversation
Your seedy relaxation
You are what now ails me.
| Contributors: | Francine, P, archaeopteryx, Kansas Sam, Karin, Hagfish, tonedeaf, Nym, Nym (programmer joke), Karin & Mark, pm, Nym (F-tut tut), Anon., Karin (we're way off now). |
| Poem finished: | 18th July 2003. |