Addressing the stereotypes associated with being a fine artist or poet through the exploration of prose poetry using a listicle format.

1. Be Quiet And Reclusive In Your Daily Life

Talk about tall, dark and mysterious. A poet only looks to his inner demons for company and finds comfort in the humming sound of silence that topples over their eardrums in an empty room. While they are inherently reclusive, it is not for their shy tendencies, but instead in order to produce a persona of interest to those in their surroundings. No publicity is bad publicity even if you say you do not like the publicity, and boy, do poets hate publicity.

2. Only Drink Black Coffee In Obscure Mid-City Cafes

The darker the coffee, the darker the poet's heart will be and the darker the heart makes for a much more honest piece of literature. Accompanied by their journal and a European crepe, the poet tends to only appear at their favorite coffee house in the middle of the afternoon with the impression that they have just woken up from a comatose state endued by loneliness and the bitter reality that American lives are nothing more than imprisonment for those with an IQ above 75.

3. Constantly Be Smoking A Cigarette

Poets have a lot of emotions and have found the act of living is just too predictable. So, in order to reduce life expectancy, they smoke cigarettes to ensure their death is not only memorable but dramatic. With cancerous lungs, poets use every word as if it will be their last and thus feel the need to think before they speak and use an array of words that not only are obscure but also profoundly introspective.

4. Be Overly Emotional In Your Poetry And In Your Life

If there are no tear stains rippling blue rulings on your work, are you even profoundly disturbed? A writer and poet cries in place of their characters and persona they are trying to project and thus, with the help of the the Six Aristotelian Elements Of A Play, is constantly crying due to the climax of a story and natural cathartic moment in cinema.

5. Be A Woman

A Old Fashioned Man's Equation On Gender And The Fine Arts: Creativity = Emotions = Feminine = Woman. "A man doth not what a woman and yet a woman doth what a man."

A poet is not and thus becomes.