Why Pick One

Too much advice hounds writers,
Advice on writing written
By writers who know better

Than to follow their advice.
Mostly, it’s head fakes. Who writes
Just what they’re certain they know?

Who writes only what they want
To see? The impossible?
Who follows any advice

On being to true to themselves
Who hasn’t betrayed themselves,
Not least by taking advice?

Here’s a bit of bad advice.
Smush together all advice.
Write what you don’t know you know.