HYPHEN COMMA FORWARD SLASH

I saw an article today about poetry. Apparently, some Cambridge University students were presented with a poem which didn't have any words in it, just punctuation. I think they were asked to write about it (presumably to go into great depths about the way punctuation implies concepts and emotions through learned interpretations of archaic symbols) or write their own wordless poems, based on the text.

That's all very interesting, I thought. As you know, I didn't go to Cambridge (not to study, anyway), but that's not enough to stop me having a little go myself. I've cheated a little (I used a number) but this is a poem, nonetheless, which uses entirely no words.

I think I shall call it: Hyphen Comma Forward Slash.

- ,  /

- , /

; - #

( &

: - >

? + *

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. \ - #

- ,  /