Helpful Suggestions for the Infuriatingly Interesting
i.
Measure yourself against imagination.
Take stock of all your short-comings.
Buckle beneath your own insecurity.
ii.
Let your ambition consume you so fully
that the only joy left in your life is
having your paranoia proven true.
iii.
Insist there is a formula for these things,
a script we are both meant to follow: lines
following lines, never crossed or forgotten.
iv.
See me, for a time, and let that solidify
into a single, perfected picture. Protest
when I prove an inconsistent match.
v.
Take to sighing and shrugging as if it were
fashion, a trend to be so very disaffected,
so dull & dim where once there'd been life.
vi.
Decide who I am & dictate it to me.
Accept no evidence to the contrary.
vii.
Let pride & desire determine your direction
without any tempering by grace or discretion.
viii.
Empty yourself of depth.
Fill the hollowness with
trinkets and whistling.
ix.
Take all of my trust and feed it to the Eater.
x.
Stop sending me poetry.