writing worth a shit

[Tiger the Lion]

My writing is still immature, egocentric, pretentious, cliche, poorly punctuated, preachy, cartoonish and trite. I am thrilled to be reminded of that as many times as it takes.

I hope to be guilty of all of the above -- with the exception of poor punctuation (!) -- regularly. Especially the cartoonish part. Everyone loves cartoons.

I want to write poems of Garfield.

I know how to tickle a nerve with a rhyme,
I know I can retell events,
but too often I get so ahead of my tale,
that I can't tell my feet from my assonance.