Poetry should:
- Refuse to be reduced to an "ism"
- Fly in the face of convention, except where it feels impelled to embrace it
- Reject all snobbery and effete-ism, except to ridicule it
- Be blatantly random
- Be not afraid to be unreadable
- Be not afraid to be abstract
- Be not afraid to be vulgar, angry, political or annoying
- Reject all notions of craft
- Be not afraid to be funny
- Be unafraid to be humble
- Be unafraid
- Be useless
- Be unpublishable
- Be written without regard to set notions of art, artifact, or above all, the artist's place in history
- Be handwritten
- Include hypertext, if desired
- Be as easily performed as ballet as spoken word
- Be in blatant violation of FCC regulations
- Contain genuine emotion
- Be written for people, dogs, rocks, fruit. . .
- Be exclusively auditory
- Be exclusively visual
- Be exclusively excrement
- Be pleasurable
- Be difficult
- Be easy
- Be academically unsound
- Be chemically unstable
- Be cruel
- Be humane
- Be blasphemous
- Be holy
- Be heavy
- Be cream
- Be blue
- Be pink
- Be red.