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O Grammar! Our Grammar!

April 29, 2016
By Majestik BRONZE, Blaine, Minnesota
Majestik BRONZE, Blaine, Minnesota
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O Grammar! our Grammar! we’re sorry we forgot you,
The posts on our forums lack, your rules followed by few,
While it’s and its, are mixed and mixed, until they’ve lost their meaning,
There, their and they’re; it's not that hard, possession, place, and person;
                      But O no! no! no!
                         No you can't get them correct,
                            And our so precious internet,
                               It is all but wrecked.

O Grammar! our Grammar! there are more than just those;
Effect—different than affect—it's a noun not a verb,
Effect is change as a noun—the act of changing though,
That is affect, for example, the event affected me;
                      Here Grammar! my friend!
                         Without you we’d be dead!
                            Then there’s our texts,
                                 They are all but wrecked.

Our Grammar helps us greatly, we can communicate,
We can share all our great ideas, without a loss of faith,
My OCD need not suffer, if we can all write right
I need not plug my ears and run away in fright;
                      I fill with joy, and jump for joy!
                         When we all use it right,
                            Our precious internet,
                               It’s no longer wrecked.


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This poem is based on the O Captain! My Captain! poem by Walt Whitman


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