If you’re a good poet, you are precise.

PRECISE, motherfucker.

PRECISE. Not vague. Not mushy. Not ready to overlook stupid ass mistakes and ignorance in a poem in favor of the sincerity of emotion contained therein.

PRECISE. Every word’s there for a reason. Every word adds something. You know why the word is there if someone asks you about it.

PRECISE. Minimal abstraction; more images; more concrete sensory description. NO FUCKING SLOGANS.

I’ll go back to grouching in seclusion now.