Weltenschauung

Quite true, Maitre,
though you've forgotten
to mention

punctuation ----
that too matters
just as much:

an author's favourite mark
tells you something crucial
about her Weltanschauung

especially in this new
e-mail-mad millennium...
Mine, I can tell you

at once, is neither
comma, colon (full or semi),
full stop, dash,

exclamation
or interrogation
mark, but the hybrid

interrobang,
which needs no text
& can stand

in mocking autonomy,
a complete critique
of the passing show.

Kaiser Huq teaches English at Dhaka University.