(Ap-o-si-o-pe-sis: noun. To end a sentence in mid sentence for its rhetorical effect)
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The World of Aposiopesis
Humor: I heard the term aposiopesis about 45 years ago and never had an occasion to use it. Sometimes, I guess, you've just got to force the issue and thrust it upon humanity. Imagine two comedians (1 and 2) alternating and delivering these lines in rapid succession.
1. There comes a time in everyone's life when we just want to stop what were doing and ...
2. Gather our thoughts and move on because
1. Life is too short to worry about
2. Things that go bump in the night and
1. Besides Ive never liked how you always sneer
2. With your rosy cheeks and smiling eyes you are
1. More or less like a zombie walking whenever you
2. Move in little circles like a butterfly dancing
1. In the moonlight, oh, that soft moonlight that
2. Lights up my life and gives me hope to carry
1. A large sack of potatoes down a long flight of stairs when suddenly
2. My pants fell without a sound like they had been ripped by
1. The hands of time moving erratically like a clacking
2. Streetwalker with stiletto heels and tight shorts
1. Coming closer and closer intent on making me pay her
2. Twice as much for the time we spent together, increasingly
1. Making my bank account smaller until
2. Zero was the only word that could describe my feelings for
1. The hopelessness that engulfed my mind and stabbed my
Underwear tearing them to shreds like a maniacal sex machine
2. Is nearly always the answer to what troubles us because ...
1. What would life be without your soft caress and your hot
2. Fingers moving up and down my spine she went for the kill and
1. Squashed my lips into submission as I kissed and kissed her until
2. The only parts left were scattered about on the floor in completely
1. Useless piles much like a broken sex toy but still intact enough for the average ...
2. Perverted bastard that he was she shot him in his protruding
1. Big toe that was like a banana except that it smelled like
2. Old socks and dead fish make a combination that only a
1. Really weird person would take home to his mother who
2. Always had strange thoughts about her flowers that in turn
1. Drooped and sagged until they were no longer recognizable as
2. The sweetest sounds I ever heard are still inside my
1. Closets are perfect places for old shoes and dead bodies because
2. Nobody but nobody wants you when youre old and gray
1. Therell be some changes made today, yes
2. If ever you would leave me
1. Please tell me that you love me
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The World of Aposiopesis
