There are decimal dots which we can't do without
In spite of Lord RANDOLPH'S historical flout;
There are dots too, with dashes combined, in the mode
Familiar in Morse's beneficent code;
While some British parents good reasons advance
In favour of "_dots_" as they're managed in France.
But as for the writers disdainful of plots
Who pepper their pages with plentiful dots,
They must not complain if the critics of prose
Disapprove of a practice which savours of pose,
And, searching around for an adequate [Greek: hoti],
Proclaim it a sign of a brain that is dotty.
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