PARODY Poem: Poetry for Dummies, by Vanessa Watters

Never write with your left hand, it may give you bad luck.
Always talk about your sorrows, since we all give a #?@*!
Never mind having a point, as there are miles before you sleep.
And please don’t forget to rhyme.

Use punctuation even when you don’t know how,
when it comes to poems almost anything’s allowed.
Don’t bother with sonnets, as who could top Shakespeare?
And if all else fails just crack another beer.

Above all else, always say what you mean,
trying to figure out all those metaphors can get confusing.
But the last thing you can take from me, about the rules
of poetry, is that it never hurts to get a little bit cheeky.

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