Ron Padgett, "How To Be Perfect".

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I like it as a general rule.

However

“Take your phone off the hook at least twice a week.”

Is dated and should probably be

“Lock your phone in a box at least twice a week.”

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Well it is an old poem..

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

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

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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.

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

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May I never need a shotgun.

That was good.

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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.

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