If you use adjectives in your prose, do not use nouns. If you
use nouns, you must not use verbs. If you use verbs, try to
avoid verbs that specify a particular city. When specifying
particular cities in fiction, do not use cities that have been
specified in poems. Poems have so few things left of their own
anymore that we should let them have their own cities. When
writing poems, use many different points of view. Poems without
multiple points of view are too strident. Prose is allowed to be
strident on certain political holidays, but poems that are
strident tend to resemble over-ripe fruit, and nobody likes
that. Bad writing is usually caused by over-ripe fruit, but
often enough there is too little rain during the season, and
that isn't any good, either. More good writing is produced by
rain than by drought. Do not write about the thing that annoyed
your brother the last time you wrote about it, because he's
bigger than you and he's got a mean streak and there are plenty
of other things to write about, like