With water from the Heliconian fount?
Then remember the hubristic, the profane, the pugilistic,
Are the only things in poetry that count.
So select a tragic argument, ensuring
The maximum expenditure of gore,
And the epithets "arresting," "unalluring,"
"Elemental" will re-echo as before.
But if your bent propels you into fiction,
You should clearly and completely understand
That your duty in a novel is not to soar, but grovel,