Are we all not idioms, peculiar to ourselves in construct and meaning? Are not all of us syntactical anomalies? Do we not all have elliipses, lacunae, egregious gaps in our beings? Lack of parallel construction in our lives, dangling like participles, a pronoun without its antecedent? Are not our lives run- on sentences handed up by unconscious wishes and unmet needs? Too bad we could not be more declarative and less rhetorical or imperative.
Copyright 2019 Tod Howard Hawks
A graduate of Andover and Columbia College, Columbia University, Tod Howard Hawks has been a poet and a human-rights advocate for his entire adult life.