Symbols of Character.

On top of (seven thousand) parentheses
a man paints; the tale of ellipses too insist
in him that strokes finish with colons
and commas, and never with a period:
continue, for ends only come with
blemish -almost in vanity- that marks
a finality of a tender world; so quickly
begin and perish as gunshots to branch
of winged brackets and symbols; [only one
bleed deems the rest unworthy just as one
end condemns the colors to rest]
unstuck from oozing ellipses he can only ordain
an apostrophe to the being's form and string
such colors with beige twine; a man melts
dash and semicolon with burnt sienna
out of ears once plugged with asterisks
and clutter; his turpentine hand ends continuity
With a period.