I am rolling in
punctuation
pause
dog bark
dog bark
a semicolon seems best here, describe
a sentence on either side
or a hyphen
the dog on a leash
on a leash
tamed by a period, question
mark why are we sitting here when
there is snow
falling over ellipses
ellipses
more ellipses . . . i get in trouble
for this when I speak
in ellipses
rolling over spaces
breaking
every
thought
I perform in quotation(s)
mark the end
of each line
the line that signals a line break
in prose
gathered, like a block quote
according to MLA
swimming through textual
notation
that has little to do
nothing do to
has not anything to do
with the content
of listening
and pleasure
the dog does a dance
a thought bubble above her head
speaks
syntactically
incorrect
properly
punctuated
desires