A Reflective Ploy

A Reflective Ploy... it is a reflective ploy; on the part of me, when proofreading all this work of mine; and do I really care? that a full stop. don’t! or that commas; are often too many or misplaced. now semi-colons are useful dudes to slam! two slightly related clauses - together. – and as for the colon is quite a pain to introduce! “quotation marks” are to be used at your peril; and only if you know what you are doing. and as for an ellipsis; really, confuses me head in where to place the dots. exclamation mark! is a serious contender of becoming nothing more; than a glorified emoticon! and a question mark asks the question? “are you amazingly clever?” and as for (brackets), you can either be; amazingly clever with their use, or just plain dumb! (Parentheses) makes you smart! [ square brackets] designed to confuse you!!! the hyphen, en dash or em dash – confuses those illiterate of us, with their proper place in ‘Da Queen’s Inglish.’ the apostrophe is one of those cats in this punctuation test; where we don’t just understand, where it goes and when. braces are not your dental thing; and before you know it, are always used in pairs, if you understand the theory of having a in a sentence of your choosing. a slash is not going out the back for a wait-n-see; but a most useful punctuation tool to distinguish two terms, such as she/he. “punctuation marks!’ in this day and age of texting… on a mobile thing, has become a lost art. so, in rhetoric! what does the future hold? for a ‘little black duck,’ in writing musings, thoughts and words, in a reflective ploy this is a never-ending riddle. Francis Cooper - Mac