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Saturday, February 27, 2016

My Style Guide

Poems are liquid prose. Prose insists. Poems plead.
Kale tastes best in darkness. Residue of texture.
I is romantic vestige. Deport it. Feel the freedom.
Irony is literate decadence. Stick to sarcasm. Common voice.
Drumbeat of iambs in veins. Just the facts, Ma'am.
Edgy as opposed to hard. Violent refusal to respond.
Adjectives limited. Adverbs useless. Nouns just sit.
Ah, but verbs. Verbs as we are. We are verbs. Creating.
Other parts, only utilitarian. Sequence of composition.
Words in a row marching like soldiers to certain death.
Metaphors compressed as diamonds. Regal and rusted.
The clock's face reveals nothing. Blank chronology.
Humor provides shelter. Lear on the moor. Fool.
Lines in a stanza remain lines. Mere artifice
Love is in and out of every door. Root of desire.
Take whatever you like. Make it new. Make it new.
Feel noose around neck. Have the last word. Anyway.

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