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don't post so much
post more

don't post so much
post more 
make your lines shorter 
make your lines longer
why don't
you make yourself disappear
why are you so greedy
you sonofabitch
what makes you think you are godalmighty

don't post so much
post more
who are you anyway and who
are all those fucked-up
people 
you write about where does all that stuff
come from the reader's
digest

don't post so much
post more
but not more gerunds gerunds are bad bad
and never use "one" if one
can help it use
"we" because in poetry as in all things in this life there are rules
fool and don't think
you can use us

don't post so much
how about
if you post every other day except
on wednesdays
wednesdays some of us
have to go to
choir practice and can't forever be spending
every minute
of every waking day thinking about
the next damn
thing you're gonna throw up

don't post so much
about your mama and daddy and how
you got a fishhook in your leg
post more
about love don't you love anybody
do yourself a favor read the golden bough read 
ram dass
the tibetan book of the dead read where 
the wild things are
you're really not very original you know think you are the only one 
that ever got a blowjob from his grandpa 

don't post so much
post more
like that last one of yours 
which imho
could be a major poem, but 
what started out as a pretty neat piece 
ended up with a url 
to patti ann rogers and god pissing on himself
and when will you 
ever stop wrapping your he 
saids to 
the next line did somebody tell you that 
was chic or avant garde

don't post so much
post more
of the things we're used to the precious things
we're all looking for
this stuff of yours isn't poetry there isn't a line
of poetry in it and you know that good
and well 
so whatever destructive evil plan 
you've got on your mind 
we wish you'd just stop it won't you 
stop please don't stop please we are sick and tired 
of you fucking 
with our minds not to mention our holy guidelines

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