The Semicolon; A Poem

I knew a man
Who never spoke
In complete sentences.
He would often;
Since he was unable
To form complete thoughts;
Pause and start over;
Thinking falsely;
That he could have said it
More clearly;
If he rearranged the words
And started over;
Well, not completely over;
But mid-sentence;
Substituting clauses;
Dangling his modifiers;
Splitting his infinitives;
Gerunding;
Until one day he had difficulty
Explaining to his doctor
A problem he'd been having with digestion;
Leading to a mis-diagnosis of Crohn's disease;
Which led the doctor to elect a bowel resection;
Leaving the man who used
Too many semicolons
With a semi-colon all his own.