Double space

I learned to type with two spaces after every period.  It wasn*t until this week that I learned the one space mode is preferred by those in the know.  Clearly I missed something, somewhere.  Two spaces seems, well, cleaner somehow.  Not so hard to miss when one sentence ends and another begins.  YMMV.

Why use a single space

When a double space

Will do?

I am all

For taking twice the space

No matter how old-fashioned

It is.

Paragraphs are more roomy

That way.

Speeches are better heard

With longer pauses

Inserted

Especially if the sentences

Are short,

Especially if one does not

Lose one*s way

In a thicket

Of clauses.

Why ever use a single space

When a double one

Will do?

Dress the double space

In crinoline and bloomers.

Make it

More interesting.