Love Of Beast

I loved the birds but they flew too high for my reach and I loved my dog but she had already been taken (from behind) also my cat was loved by me but she disdained my neediness and lack of independence so she could exist alone which left my white mare an Arabian I named Calliope and when I asked my mum if I could marry my mare she said that at least the foals would not be born as bastards.I deliberately left out the punctuation, save for the full stop at the end. I thought to use line widths and breaks to serve as regulators of rhythm and stress. Should I have punctuated? I'm trempted to go back and do that, yet at times, lack of punctuation lends a clean, pristine look to a poem. What do you think? Written December 30th, 2001 © on Dec 30 2001 06:51 AM PST   0 • 14