Run on

[Tiger the Lion]

Do you know how to make a prose sentence go forty pages, like Faulkner?



When I was in Summer's class: I got great grades every day, until we took a long-sentence class, and I put a semicolin in a sentence during a test.


Summer would always say: You're so smart; until she saw that grade of that -- where I had broken one sentence on that test, up.


I argued that I broke the sentence up, via context, and Summer, copying off my paper was part of it.

That didn't jibe with the English professor, of 2017.

. . . I'm a poet. I can use language and punctuation however the fuck I artfully choose.

Yes. I 100% agree. But artistic licence can be a gateway drug to indulgence. I think that's what I am trying to guard against, not just in this snippet but with writing in general. No use pushing the envelope all the way into the abyss. 

She and Summer disagreed.
Well, the professor did,
Summer blamed me.

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and, Summer, copying off . . .