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4 recipes for writing poems

1. Turn your mobile phone alarm on for 2:30 in the morning, wake up, have a cold bath, turn all your lights on, and write poetry on old rciepts.

2. Sit in a fast-food restuarant, eat too much, surround yourself with babies crying, and try to write poems in a stylish notebook.

3. Sit behind your local Chinese restaurant at 7 AM when it's pouring down rain and write poetry on pieces of A4 peper as the rain makes ink bleed and your paper soggy.

4. Play solitaire on the computer and listen to hard-core glitch for 4 hours, then type out poems in too small font until you've written 5 pages.

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goatman

17 years 4 months ago

I hate self-dignity

Don't treat yourself nice, you're your worst enemy, and you can give yourself flowers and chocolates after you've finished. Anyway, what progress came of peace? Progress comes from torture, pain and war. Poetry generally follows.