Ostensibly Elsewhere

[shemthepenman]

[RiverNotch]

I saw a milk bottle; The Dickinsonian in me demands an em dash over the semicolon -- and, really, the semicolon makes these two lines, in narrative well-connected but in idea (the earlier's description, the other's melodrama) truly disparate, too close. 
almost missed it!
on the bloody old page 
of a neutron bomb book. I'm not sure what a neutron bomb book is, exactly, but "bloody" made me think of actual blood, "almost missed it" was given to me with too sly a smile to be ignored, and "milk bottle" made me think of Jocasta -- that is to say, judging by the title, you really do mean some sort of nonsense here, but it's nonsense I love anyway. And all in the best font, too! Well, all except for the title...

[shemthepenman]

I saw a milk bottle; The Dickinsonian in me demands an em dash over the semicolon -- and, really, the semicolon makes these two lines, in narrative well-connected but in idea (the earlier's description, the other's melodrama) truly disparate, too close. 
almost missed it!
on the bloody old page 
of a neutron bomb book. I'm not sure what a neutron bomb book is, exactly, but "bloody" made me think of actual blood, "almost missed it" was given to me with too sly a smile to be ignored, and "milk bottle" made me think of Jocasta -- that is to say, judging by the title, you really do mean some sort of nonsense here, but it's nonsense I love anyway. And all in the best font, too! Well, all except for the title...

thanks for reading. nonsense? more than likely. Oedipal? inevitably. em dash? definitely!