• Run-On Sentence*

    This poem is written using columns. Read down the left-hand column first, then continue by reading down the right-hand column.



    Sometimes failure is the_____never weeded, all runs amiss,
    best way to go, because_____discord gives the world her kiss,
    maybe we really don’t_______we give reign to chaos, because
    know what’s best for_______nothing else can save us, recklessness
    the rest of us, even_______goes unpunished, unregarded, secrets
    though we may_________are told, left unguarded , impunity takes
    think we’re on to_________over, becomes our king, nevermore
    something big, life’s________does freedom ring, the uneducated
    a game that’s rigged,________masses flood in and there’s no
    sometimes you win,__________atonement, just sin, understand nothing,
    sometimes you lose, and________for understanding has
    no matter which path you_________fled, reasoning and logic
    choose they all lead to the_________pronounced dead, easy to
    exact same end, enemies___________start, never to end, holding
    become friends and versa____________your heart out to a friend,
    vice, et cetera, et cetera,____________darkness shall conquer and
    things change, they_______________closets shall open, the monsters
    rearrange, nothing_______________will come, locks will be broken,
    is the onlly thing__________________insanity runs wild, child bearing
    that moves, we all___________________child bearing beast, wickedness’
    fall through the grooves________________feast, rapists go unapprehended,
    and fade away, none_____________________rips in souls go unmended,
    us are really here to stay,____________________murder gives way to suicide
    they say our voices are heard__________________gives way to matricide
    but that’s absurd, our cries_____________________gives way to filicide gives
    fall on deaf ears, they don’t_____________________way to genocide, end of
    see, they don’t hear, the______________________nations, civilizations, back
    world falls apart, the_______________________to the primordeal ooze, high
    unraveling starts, and_____________________on crack, drunk on booze, the
    goes on and on_____________________prostitution hits all-time high, no one
    and on, unnoticed,______________________thinks to ask why, if this is life in
    unheeded, like a garden____________a nutshell, maybe we should try to fail.