Line Breaks
Sometimes line breaks really matter. I wonder why some poets choose the line breaks they do; I sometimes think it’s just that they think it looks good, and other times it’s for cleverness. But then there are things other than poetry that have line breaks. I just read something at Facebook that made me pause for a moment:
Tattoo a breast
cancer awareness ribbon
on your profile and
send them to friends.
You’ll find this tattoo
under “symbols.” It’s easy.
Now it’s possible I’ve not gotten all the line breaks quite right, but I KNOW that first one is. Because I read the beginning as this:
Tattoo a breast.
Yep. Just “tattoo a breast”. And then I thought they were suggested that you tattoo the words “cancer awareness ribbon” on it. And I thought, “Well, that just doesn’t make sense! Maybe mean to tattoo one of those pink ribbons on your breast because they can’t mean you should tattoo those words!”
And yes. I am just that weird to believe that they would suggest this.