The English Writer © Tony Fallon 021018

The English Writer © Tony Fallon 021018

Had I known I was going to be a writer with all this glamour

I'd have paid better attention to vocab,spelling and grammar

There were good books in the library that I should have read

Not comics by flashlight under the blanket by night in my bed

I would never have wasted time on subtraction and addition

And used the dictionary and thesaurus on composition

Of course at that time I thought a thesaurus was a Latin bull

Or a wild sheep on a Brazilian mountains with angora wool

Where to use the apostrophe often led to complications

But there were other larger problems with other punctuations

I certainly would have used synonyms for wordy refinements

On all my overnight or weekend and home work assignments

I did okay with stories and poems but not good with dramas

And I never figured how many words go between two commas

One Monday night I asked my mother about a semi colon

She said I think that is a small intestine that is swollen

The teacher often seemed to have her features out of joint

Because of my wrong use of the stop or the exclamation point

She often said my dangling participles should never be seen

I was so embarrassed to hear something so obscene

ITS' is not IT'S, THEY'RE or THEIR isn't used for THERE

I don't think a TO plus a TOO will ever add up TWO a FORE

Question should start with what, why, would, should or could

You show you weren't attentive by using the wrong WOOD

Some use sentences with long and complicated explanations

Someone else uses a long string of simple abbreviations

Should the question mark be inside or outside the quotations?

I still don't understand half the English language regulations

I often write some long sentence that can be over half a page

I don't know when is enough or when to stop or disengage

There are rules and more rules which you cannot circumvent

We must all stick with them regardless of how we lament

Still there is one unwritten law of absolute magnificence

All us poets are protected from errors by poetic license