Oyster Boy Review 11  
  April 1999
 
 
 
 
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Poetry


Advice to Poets

James Broughton


Simplify. Clarify. Vivify.

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Surprise your eyes. Break your heart open.

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Look out! Here comes the Imperishable Light!
Accept no substitutes.


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A cucumber shouldn't try to be a tomato.

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Don't argue or mock. Unfurl like a rose.

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Dose all your ills with laughter.

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Go beyond! Go beyond!

We are all participants in the marvelous.