I lately lost a preposition It hid, I thought, beneath my chair And angrily I cr...

sesqu on May 13, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Rise of "Logical Punctuation".

  I lately lost a preposition
  It hid, I thought, beneath my chair
  And angrily I cried, "Perdition!
  Up from out of in under there."

  Correctness is my vade mecum,
  And straggling phrases I abhor,
  And yet I wondered, "What should he come
  Up from out of in under for?"

-Morris Bishop in the New Yorker, 27th September, 1947