How to Write Better Poems in 25 Easy Steps

1. Saturate. 2. Broil. 3. Make odd friends. 4. Move somewhere detrimental to your health unexpectedly. 5. Please deposit $5000. 6. Eat bones. 7. Die. 8. Be a Saint. 9. Get a job out of spite, do it for three years, kill a dog on the way home, without meaning to, and suffer. 10. Skip down the rough trail while everyone drives 100 miles per hour.11. Age in wine. 12. Get lost. 13. Be amazed. 14. Be dipped in shit. 15. Get paid once a year whether you need it or not. 16. Replant the Great North Woods. 17. In the cold rain, turning to snow. 18. Sleep with cold toes. 19. Fish. 20. Cut bait. 21. Read the next thing you see. 22. Cut out whatever doesn't hurt. 23. Abandon any possibility. 24. Toil without recompense. 25. Serve.