Billy Biff-Chin7 Feb 2004

Very good. -8-

Sorry about plagiarising your other poems. I was just messing around to piss you off.

This is a real improvement on your other poems.

I agree with the other poets here that it's better to write about new, unexpected things than about stale and tired old subjects.

It's better to write about something that will make everyone sit up and take notice.

The idea of licking an ashtray "to get satisfaction" is surprising and interesting.

The next lesson: learn to think beyond the obvious. I suggest you try to describe things in astonishingly accurate but unexpected ways.

But don't take these poems to school. Teachers won't like you writing about ducks with AIDS. That's because teachers are narrow-minded and unimaginative fools with little aptitude for appreciating originality.

That's a broad generalisation, but I remember how rubbish school can be.