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A tiny bit of social commentary on reading some of the big blocks of gorgeous text... that is almost impossible for me with my dyslexia. I am a great reader until faced with 3 pages of text with no line breaks, or even a comma and period. 

 

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I have presbyopia, astigmatism and more than a dose of dyslexia to boot
And so I have to break up my poetry into stanzas or my writing goes mute

I fall between the letters and get lost upon the page
and nothing makes any sense 
and my brain begins to rage

My eyes get tired fast, reading a page of unrelenting text
with no line breaks or paragraphs 
to collect the thoughts best

This simple punctuation helps me keep the meter flow
but it also helps me read what I wrote
and encapsulate the storys growth

So break up those pages a bit eh?
give those eyes a rest

People will thank you for it 
if you don't make it such a test. 

- Artimus  9/29/23 8:24PM (C) Susan Manley

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Date: 9/30/2023 10:45:00 AM
Hahaha! Love the humor. Sorry for your challenges. I too avoid reading something that is a HUGE block of unpunctuated text. Unless it is an unusually great piece. Hugs.
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Susan Manley
Date: 9/30/2023 11:05:00 AM
:) Its not that I don't want to. I just simply can't. I get lost on the page. It may have something to do with the cut and paste function on the site, as I notice things composed in email and pasted here lose all their line breaks. Though things composed in MS Word do not.

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