Have rumors of its death been exaggerated…?
Ampersands…?
Their fates be varied:
[ ] dwindling [ ] dying [ ] dead & buried.
Apostrophe’s done: illit ’ratis have won.
The asterisk…? It's dead! (Just like Jack Dorsey *said.)
*
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Say a prayer
for the bracket. Good lad. [Couldn’t hack it.]
The bullet has
abused for years its
· . mentors
· . minions
. bosses
·. peers
The death of
the caret…? Mon frere cannot bear it.
^
Adieu to cedillas: “Leçons pour gorillas.” *
*
Says my bro (whom I love).
(He’s the bloke from above.)
Retir’d is the
colon:
more time to go
bowlin’...?
As for daggers
(single, double)…?
Dead as dormice
dipp’d in honey †
or some Raphi cucullati ‡ --
or the freakin’
Easter Bunny.
† A delicacy served at ancient Roman banquets
‡ Extinct dodos
Life sans the comma…?
No comma,
no drama!
Dashes dead -- em and en
--…?
Just a matter
of when.
The mark of
exclamation’s gone,
eradicated. Let's move on!
To the misters
who’ll miss
their ellipsis: Boo…!
Hiss-s-s-ss…!
The full stop
is gone.
It’s hung,
quarter’d and drawn.
Leave it to the
hyphen
to insert its
two-edged knife in.
Next for
parentheses…?
Epitaphs. (RIPs).
The pilcrow’s
under stress…
¶ But
now I must digress…
Quotes known as
“curly”
are past their
prime, surely!
“The ditto,”
they said.
“ “ “ , he dead!”*
* Like Conrad’s Mr. Kurtz, perhaps.
Diaereses…just
on leave…?
How can
you, Friend, be so naïve…?
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