Semi Colon; Poem by Syed Ahmed Shah

; you put the tip of your tail in your mouth; drink your own dropp of urine; plant seeds in the womb and harvest your own killer; father your father; mother your mother; father your mother; mother your father; demolish your house in order to get bricks for your tomb; you do not end a year; a moment; a blink; a heartbeat; a sneeze; a sigh; a thought; an event without beginning another; the full stop is superfluous in life; all one needs is the semi colon; a semi colon is all that you need; it is the only punctuation mark necessary apart from the comma; jettison the period; the interrogation; the paragraph; the rest; like this…;

© Syed Ahmed Shah, Bokultol, Guwahati, the 7th of April,2012;