5.10.06

Guidebook for Female Poets (a specific 'type' of poet in the subcategory of 'all' poets) in blogging their little hearts out...how not to become your own pejorative:

1. Be brave.
2. Be able to take it like a man. Do not be ashamed to take it like a man.
3. Avoid using the "I" word overly much in your posts. You sound just like your self absorbed male counterparts.
4. Reach out and read something OTHER than poetry. Try a newspaper, for instance.
5. Learn how to call a spade a spade.
6. Know how to apologize.
7. Do not trust self absorbed male poets with your beliefs, valuables or life work.
8. Do not cat fight.
9. Stand in line, wait your turn. If you can't say something intelligent, please by all means, shut up. Try not to make the rest of us look lame brained.
10. Avoid taking pictures of your ass and attaching them to your poems.
11. When men are behaving histrionically, tell them so in no uncertain terms.
12. If a male ever dares to censor your honest efforts to explain something to him that he is either ignorant of or has displayed a curiously unbalanced view about, ditch him and anyone associated with him.
13. http://www.billdobbins.com/PUBLIC/pages/coolfree/bbsport_folder/musclebound.htm

*On Hell

When telling a male to go to hell, make sure to be very careful. If you are like me and actually believe in hell, the male tends to take it to heart and explode in furious bursts of rage.

1 comment:

eric d said...

the truth is always the funniest.