Let your yesses mean yes and your nos also mean yes.
Blink authoritatively like Jeannie in I Dream of Jeannie.
Acquire a sleek and gleaming surface, punctuated only by a minimalist logo.
Have your people call my people.
Regardless of emergent properties, any whole can be reduced to the sum of its parts through the elimination of each part, for example during warfare.
Flagrantly compare apples and oranges. It’s no worse than lumping Winesaps with Red Delicious.
If two wings are good, three wings must be better!
Every problem is a word problem. Make language your bitch.
Assume that the soil removed in digging a hole will never be enough to fill it again.
Plan on emptying your bowels to make up the difference.
Don’t use a broker; find a money-whisperer.
If you want to be on the winning team, side with death.
Rename all the numbers, starting with A.
OTHER POSTS IN THE SERIES
- How to wake up
- How to eat
- How to walk
- How to listen
- How to wait
- How to breathe
- How to find things
- Manual: How to make videopoems, courtesy of Swoon
- How to lose
- How to dance
- How to procreate
- How to play
- How to listen: the movie
- How to mourn
- How to calculate
- How to grow up
- How to spit
- How to burn
- How to mourn, Belgian-style
- How to make a fist
- How to make a face
- How to sacrifice
- How to take notes
- How to talk
- How to dig
- How to sleep
- How to cast a shadow
- How to teem
- How to fit in
- How to sit
- How to panic
- How to exist
- How to drive
- How to question authority
- How to cook
- How to find things (videopoem)
- How to distress furniture
- How to meditate
- How to be a poet