Ron Padgett, "How To Be Perfect".

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57243/how-to-be-perfect

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CombatWombat@feddit.online · 2 pts · 56d (3 replies)

I’m not sure how much I like it as a poem, per se, but it is a lot of very good advice.

BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 56d (2 replies)

I'm not sure it is a poem entirely either, but I like it. The others I posted are definitely poems.

SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 56d (1 reply)

Oh, it’s a poem, the definition lies largely in the intention.

However, it’s not enjoyable as a poem. It is good advice though! As noted. Just lacking in any musicality or sense of lyrical I/thou relations or story or even the irony of prophet soapboxing.

BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 56d

Very good advice. His other poems are much more poetic at least.

makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 56d (1 reply)

May I never need a shotgun.

That was good.

BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 56d

I was reading a police report about a person with concealed carry who had to kill a pit bull who was attacking a child the other day, and I was thinking that I live where I've never seen a gun that wasn't on a cop or belonging to a hunter, and how bizarre it would be for me to need one.