Understanding The Poet 2

Capitalization
is a method for blending in.

A period is a bullet.
A comma is a safety.
An ellipsis is his consideration of an order from headquarters to stand down.
A dash is a microadjustment prior to targeting.
A semicolon is a shift in mode from single shot to full automatic.

A question mark is cocking the hammer, moving the slide back, then forward.

An exclamation point is a deafening report.

When none of the above are present,
he has let his guard down —
for the moment, anyway.