Deleted Scene: Last Day
By Donna Masini
I hear a book being written, my sister says, or is it a poem?
Her eyes are closed.
It has a lot of semicolons.
One sentence or two? she wants to know. Comma? Period.
Well, I say, semicolons join and separate.
Grammar, my sister says, is very interesting.
Copyright Credit: Donna Masini, "Deleted Scene: Last Day" from 4:30 Movie by Donna Masini. Copyright © 2018 by Donna Masini. Reprinted by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.