Sympathy Letter

Three exclamation points, three exclamation points:
Makes me sound a little too excited
Three exclamation points, three exclamation points:
Looks like I got a ten-year-old to write it
Three exclamation points, three exclamation points:
I might as well be using glitter glue
Three exclamation points, three exclamation points:
I’d probably better scale it down to two

Two…
Like something a Nigerian Prince would send you
Two…
Like something on a Chinese takeout menu
Two…
Like English might not be my mother tongue
Two…
I’d probably better knock it down to one

One…
It hardly even reads like exclamation
One…
Has all but lost its value to inflation
One…
I might as well give earnesty a shot
One…
I’ll drop the line and only leave the dot.

No exclamation points, no exclamation points:
The tone is either boring or depressive
No exclamation points, no exclamation points:
Or worse, I might come off passive-aggressive.
No exclamation points, no exclamation points:
This punctuation nightmare needs to end
No exclamation points, no exclamation points:
I’ll just choose something random and press send.

…It’s “Get well soon,” colon, close paren.  🙂

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