1.
Get enough food to eat,
and eat it.
2.
Find a place to sleep where it is quiet,
and sleep there.
3.
Reduce intellectual and emotional noise
until you arrive at the silence of yourself,
and listen to it.
4.
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A copy of this poem as originally published can be seen at this online essay “Cranking It Out, Old-School Style: Art of the Gestetner,” AIGA Voice, October 19, 2010