Don’t

Name the basic terms
Of your art. That’s far
More constraining than
Anyone’s canon.

If you can’t name them,
Try this. Find something,
Or better, some trait,
That you know does not

Count for your art form.
There lies the shadow
Of a basic term
For what must be there.

Artists don’t do x,
Wouldn’t stoop to y,
Laugh at, purge, and/or
Wholly despise z.

If you know it’s bad,
It ruins the art,
Is so alien
It’s beside the point,

You better watch it.
Someone will shift it.
Good luck protesting
This isn’t music.