grammar police

the grammar
police, of which she is
one, is
on the street with a stiff
wooden
ruler, smacking
knuckles for the misuse
of words,
the confusion of
there and their,
I before e and all
of that good stuff,
like who's and whose.
take out your strunk
and white and
listen to me she
says, standing straight
at the chalk board,
hair pinned
tightly on her head,
diagram this sentence,
or die, a slow
and painful death.