A Poem for National Punctuation Day

(An unmatched left parenthesis creates an unresolved tension that will stay with you all day.

Today is National Punctuation Day.  So naturally I shared my favorite xkcd comic (pictured above) on Facebook.

But the share made me think of why an opening parenthesis can cause such unresolved tension.  I mean it’s called an “opening parenthesis” after all.  So from that I wrote the following:

Unresolved
by Charity C. Tran 

Some relationships
(Maybe all relationships
Are like unresolved parentheses
We cannot close off with an end
Simply because they began

Happy National Punctuation Day – may it be punctuated by punctuation appreciation!

-cct

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