Mari Ness - Writing oddities

I seem to be writing in colons these days, like this: a stylistic oddity that has been popping up in literally everything I write, from poems to e-mails to letters to articles to other places where colons Should Not Go, but do, stalking their way into sentences and positioning themselves nastily, grinning at me as they stand within a sentence, holding guard: we are the bastions of this sentence, and what will you do about it?

I am fairly sure that this : madness is happening because I've been playing around with formal poetry structures recently, and I have a bad tendency to put : all over those, without reason or even (critically in this case) rhyme. That's bad enough in poetry, but it is far worse in these various articles, where I can hardly justify the presence of half of these :, and cannot give a modicrum of reason for the other half, which stand : and :, looking at me. I am going to hunt them down, one by one, and laugh at them as I reduce them to single dots, to periods, to final closure: to force them to understand that I will not have an overdone half-pause showing off the careful balance of thoughts (because indeed in these sentences (well, at least in these blasted articles) I have no careful balance of thoughts), that I will have closure, and completion, and lots of dots.