/\/\urder and /\/\ayhem

Forward slash/, back slash\ you’ll feel the appeal in a simple splash    
I hope you hear this loud and clear like a cymbal crash with this symbol flash  
It’ll be a mess before you lose your consciousness but then you’ll realize    
This is pay back for the lack of sleep you’re causing me when I close my eyes!    
    
You’ll ask yourself twice – where am I at?    
Where am I “@”    
Then I’ll tell you to hand over the ampersand    
“&”    
Your ass is at risk of losing your asterisk    
“*”    
Then I'll end all the sentences without a bloody period    
A cruddy “.” tsk tsk    
   
I’ve been lying awake at night feeling like I’m ready to fight    
The rhymes and signs are coming in so bright I have to write    
I’ve been tossing and turning because my head is churning telling me slay it!    
I don’t know how else to say it but I’ll have to pen a pun and play it!    
   
It’s like a carrot hare is dangling over my face as I go on this race    
And the caret there “^” is another character I’ll go out and chase    
But this cool roll is like fool’s gold because there is no carat there    
It’s a dual role because I keep repeating myself yet there is no parrot there    
   
OK, new round - knock down - this pound “#” - and I’ll go down committing this crime    
Because this number sign has been interrupting my slumber time    
It was on my mind all night and it lagged and dragged and nagged!    
Then I heard this little jagoff got famous and now it's called a hashtag?    
   
Motherfucker I can’t sleep when these symbols are hounding me    
I want to put them in a verse and rehearse a visceral lyrical killing spree    
The further succor is that I’m a sucker for wordplay it’s a bit chaotic    
The amount of sheep I count to sleep is making me neurotic    
          
Here… ||…take these vertical bars and look at the stars    
|Just think and pause|          
Have you noticed I have a noted fixation with exclamations    
“!”    
It’ll be a racket but I’ll have to hack it with a double bracket    
[Whack it!] [Sack it!]          
But don’t feel at ease when you see a pair of these parentheses    
((Apparently a parent says this but I’ll present these as c’s))    
   
I cunningly cross contaminate characters ‘cus I can’t care continuously    
It’s causing curious confusing comic cosmic connections conspicuously    
I can quote a “quote” but then cut the joke when it’s short a quart court courtesy    
The lack of sleep creates a stack to leap over because being curt is easy    
   
I’m wired and twitchy to light a fire because my itchy finger is on the trigger    
A grammar cop from the “do not” shop will stop and ask “what’s up with that vigor?”    
I’M WARNING YOU, I’LL PULL IT – I’LL USE A BULLET POINT “•” JUST TO PROVE A POINT    
Once I place the glyph like scratch and sniff I’ll take a whiff and blow this joint    
   
Take this /, take that \, run away from this mayhem and never comeback    
I can’t relax unless I swing this ax at the odd syntax 'till I hear a thwack    
I’ve got to get these thoughts out because I’m about to get knocked out in the sleep zone    
After the laughter and slaughter I ought to dream a horror that I murdered this poem