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Question: Trying to find a poem!. Punctuation marks are used as words!.!.!.!?
I read this poem a few years ago in a poetry anthology I had for college!. Sadly I cannot remember the name of the anthology nor do I know who wrote the poem or even if they were famous!.
The poem was really cool, it used punctuation marks as words!. So the poem only made sense if read aloud!.
For instance the phrase "I'm going through a rough period I have a lot of questions"
Would be "I'm going through a rough !. I have a lot of !?s"
It didn't use that particular phrase, I'm just giving an example of the way the punctuation was used!.
Anyone know who might have written a poem like that or what poem it may have been!?Www@QuestionHome@Com
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
Composed in the Composing Room
by Franklin Pierce Adams (F!.P!.A!.)
At stated !.ic times
I love to sit and — off rhymes
Till ,tose at last I fall
Exclaiming, "I don't ^ all!."
Though I'm an * objection
By putting this in this here § --
This ? of the fleeting hour --
This lofty -ician tower --
The ?er's hope dispells
All fear of deadly ||!.
You think these [] are a pipe!?
Well, not on your ?eotype!.
F!.P!.A!. was a very popular newspaper columnist, famous in his day, but now largely forgotten!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
I found this website: http://bill!.wards!.net/blosxom/humor/geek!.!.!.
I think the type of poem you're looking for is called a Rebus Poem or Punctuation Poems, so you could search around those terms!.
Good luck!Www@QuestionHome@Com