Grammar Treason

As soon as a sentence comes to an end,

punctuation is used as a friend.

Question marks, periods, exclamation points galore,

but which one do you use more?

But to indicate a pause, definitely don’t use a clause,

but use a comma, semicolon, colon, em dash, or an ellipse to receive an applause.

In a sentence when the sentence is nonspecific,

use concision to make it concise and terrific.  

Concision’s friend, parallelism, teaches

correspondence in sentence structure and everyone should preach it.

And then, for some odd reason,

you can’t use a comma to join two independent clauses or else you commit grammar treason.

Parody of "As Soon as Fred Gets Out of Bed" by Jack Prelutsky describing grammar concepts and when they are to be used and not to be used. I used this poem as my template because of its use of rhyming to engage the reader. I played with this theme throughout my parody.