A comma belongs between each of your great thoughts;
Otherwise folks might confuse your “is” with their “oughts.”
Verbs make the world go ’round, ’tis true,
But for their acts, nouns are the glue.
To end a sentence, a preposition is more
Apropos than something else you could use it for.
“Every day” is an everyday phrase,
But using it rightly earns you great praise.
The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain.
Why that matters is just too hard to ‘splain.
“If Ogden Nash could see me now,” I said,
“He’d tell me, ‘Write about a cow instead!”
Metered verse constrains the form of these words,
If only we could trim these thoughts by thirds.
Hardscrabble 