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# Preach What You Practice
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/preach-what-you-practice/
- Published: 2024-03-19T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-03-19T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: For those who write to grind their axes: try use an essay for a form. A sonnet praising death and taxes will surely violate the norm. Resist the urge to drone and lecture. This may be only a conjecture but if you lack...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

For those who write to grind their axes:  
try use an essay for a form.  
A sonnet praising death and taxes  
will surely violate the norm.  
Resist the urge to drone and lecture.  
This may be only a conjecture  
but if you lack a comic gift,  
a limerick about grift  
will surely send your readers screeching,  
in search of consonants and vowels.  
Your movement's better left for bowels,  
so let me join their voice, beseeching:  
Enough with it's not me, it's you.  
You want to write? Say something new.