#24
Poetic Manifesto
If I were to write poems, they would have to avoid cliché, like all things I feel I must create.
There would be no
arbitrary line breaks
No metaphors about bleeding, no nature
No fucking unexpected profanity
No gratuitous sex (not a single cunt)
No rhyming, or perhaps only rhyming
Acrostics would be punishable by death
You would not be “thee”, only “you”
The word “love” would be avoided at all costs
No functionless font changesAnd no abrupt endi