I’m a little shocked that Matthew Cheney has broken the writers’ code of silence and shared the real rules of writing with the unwashed masses. But the cat’s out of the bag now . . .
If you don’t understand them it’s because you’re not actually meant to be a writer.
Poems have so few things left of their own anymore that we should let them have their own cities.
Oh, I really should learn not to read these things at work. I get in so much trouble for laughing…..
Oh, dear (wipes eyes). oh dear, dear dear…
better go throw out those old grapes in my fridge.
The first paragraph sounds like “rules for writing in tlon.”