how to alienate your readers

start with a phrase they don’t understand
“the pseudoscience of parsimony makes me horny”

it doesn’t have to make sense
we aren’t in the business of making sense

put the words to the page and be proud
that is all it takes

next, take alliteration to a ridiculous level
“angels amble aimlessly along ample adequacy”

there
perfect
fuck making sense
this is poetry

remember Emily Dickenson
she loved this little number

the heart –
breaks a
million –
homes

dashes
hundreds of them

Oh, and do not forget
To capitalize
The first word
Of every line
That’s how the classics did it
Don’t you want to be famous
And taught in English classes

now all that’s
left
is to thro-
w in
some
arbitrary l-
ine breaks

the modern folks love that bullshit