Cross a “t”
or dot an “i”
and keep your toes
on the dotted margin party line.
Succinct.
No unwinding scrolls,
nor loose semicolons.
Keep it tight. A locked door.
Abbreviated daylight
pours in. Continue,
young comma.
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Alyssa Trivett is a wandering soul from the Midwest. When not working two jobs, she listens to music and scrawls lines on the back of gas station receipts. Her work has recently appeared at VerseWrights, In Between Hangovers, Your One Phone Call, and Spillwords. She has fifteen poems in a poetry anthology entitled Ambrosia, released by OWS Ink, LLC. All proceeds from the anthology are being donated to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (afsp.org). Digital link: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/742799. Amazon Kindle link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074WCLD69/ref=tsm_1_fb_lk.
