"Hazel Tells LaVerne" by Katharyn Howd Machan - Syntax

"last night im cleanin out my howard johnsons ladies room whell all of a sudden up pops this frog." This poem lacks any form of punctuation. However, it is still easy to follow, unlike "next to god america i" by e.e. cummings. Why leave out the punctuation in this poem? By doing so, it reflects the speaker's education level. With punctuation, the person would have seem more educated, and the poem would have lost some of its substance. However, to make up for the lack of punctuation, the author made a new line for each thought allowing the peom to be followed easily. I liked the idea of substituting line breaks for punctuation. It reflected the character of the speaker while keeping it understandable. The last two lines, "me/a princess" show her disbelief by causing the reader to pause between the two lines. This shows her questioning of her own abilities.