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if my life were to be a poem, how would I punctuate it?
where would the comas go, the semi-colons?
just too many parenthesis and dashes filling the stanzas,
just way too many ellipsis
loads of analogies, similes and a witty metaphors.
the oxymoron would be an ideal figure of speech
allegories would not be lacking.
a touch of magic realism and the colorful modernism
where would it be fitting to place a period?
what tense would be appropriate?

if my life were to be a poem
it would not be a sonnet-- an epigram maybe
I've always been fond of the haiku form
but too attached to the free-form verses

if my life were a poem, what would the theme be?
tragic or comic? a satire? maybe a romantic limerick?
characters, things and places would all be imaginary
in the poem of my life where would i fit?
would I appear as a flashback in the stream of consciousness?

if my life were to be a poem
the ending would most likely be the beginning
with many pauses, run-on, awkward sentences
and as luck would have it,
it would sound better in translation.