They said you cant put a period in the middle of a sentence. Can't start a thought with an and or a but. But I did. And I think the best place to put a period is wherever it belongs. Because life has taught me that not all thoughts have a subject and a predicate. Sometimes an incomplete sentence ends in a period. Or an exclamation mark! And I've known too many people who's voices have been quieted midsentence. Punctured by others who have punctuated their thoughts with a small and deliberate mark of ink. Black ink. Charcoal, the ashes of fire. And I've known people who have ended their story with a period before having completed their thoughts. For their energy ran out before their thoughts had run through. and a period seemed to them like the only way out. For they imagined they had run out of paper. But I put a period in the middle of a sentence because sometimes a sentence is complete when it's imperfect. Like I am. and sometimes I put a period in the middle of a sentence because sometimes a sentence is complete even if others can't understand it. Like God is.