Asterisks,
commas,
and full stops,
exclamation marks,
apostrophes,
quotation marks,
semi-colons,
oh, we are an expressive lot,
yes, we are an expressive lot,
and how we seem, more and more capable these days,
to express ourselves,
in shorter and shorter ways,
and we abbreviate more than ever,
we abbreviate more than ever,
for we have such little time unfortunately,
to say rather a lot.