The Tower of Babel fell down in the night The people spoke but noone could reply We cried out but noone listened then Nor did we salvage much from wrecked Big Ben
Boris Johnson raised up from the dead His pleasures once , pre- flu, lay in the bed He spread his seed about so it’s no boast To bear his child nor feed him Sunday roast
He will lead the country out of sin His brilliant way: to stop us logging in No more one click books or toys for sex No more screws and curtain rails to fix.
Ah now enjoy the peace of empty space Yet we grieve for lack of an embrace
And,furthermore,never begin a sentence with but orand
Mary woke up from her recurring dream of being back at school.This teacher had not spoken,she had just written it on the blackboard.Mary could see it in her mind’s eye
What is annoying about such dreams is that we forget what led up to the statement
Did she mean but or butt,Mary thought.How do I interpret my dream?
She kicked her partner on the butt… is that ungrammatical
Similary, is it wrong to say let’s shake hands?
It may be morally wrong during a pandemic ,but that is not to do with punctuation
Mary told herself ironically
Emile ran in and mewed loudly.
I have been up all night, he cried
Up what,Mary asked?
Up the red maple tree
How did you get down?
I closed my eyes and fell onto the hawthorne hedge
How fortunate we have no Statue or War Memorial here,Mary thought
Well, before you climb up anything, check whether you can get down without risk
That could be applied to our PM who caught Covid-19 to get a rest from politics but he might have died.If you are not comfortable with leadership, do not seek it,Mary whispered.
Cats don’t suffer from those problems,Emile informed her.
I wish I were a cat then we could move out together into the woods and fields,Mary murmured
Too cold,Emile said politely
I had an odd dream, she told him.
“Odd ” as in “numbers?”
No “odd” as in “peculiar”
What?
About grammar, she replied.Oxford commas, spliced commas,where to put question marks
Well,I don’r know how the human race has survived