Remove the burden of lonely knowledge
Scratch off the dance card any image and likeness referred to as an image and likeness
Forget the rules, especially the ones that seem to apply
Don't eat anything that begins with the letter "food"
Don't put anything sharper than a scalpel in your ear
Cancel the date with the friend who talks about you behind your back
Cancel the date with the friend who complains incessantly
Cancel the date with the friend who complains incessantly behind your back about your Canceled dates
Give away any pets that shed, that you need to keep in the shed, that shed light on your dependence on human substitutes
Toss out extraneous stigmata:
the nail wounds in the hands and feet can go
ditto the lance-pierced side
(the little crown of thorn slices dripping blood down your brow could be a nice
iconographic visual for a rainy day. Label and store.)
Get rid of any machine that talks to you
Haul to the curb the fingernail parings and toenail clippings you collected into Ovaltine jars
Return to the authors any self help book you didn't write yourself
Eliminate redundant Rorschach cards such as:
two monkeys leaning against a palm tree eating bananas
conjoined ape clowns wearing banana shoes
two-faced baboons worshipping a banana
trapeze monkey demon twins brandishing banana genitalia
all of the other cards which involve primates and phallic fruit
(the cute butterfly-bat blot escaping from evil simians can stay)
The Betty Boop memorabilia goes right in the garbage, surgically remove the
Betty Boop tattoo if applicable
Trash any recipe cards inherited from your grandmother
("Lard" is a disgusting ingredient)
Destroy any orange clothing - it is a horrible horrible horrible color that looks horrible on
everyone
Scratch the film remakes and song cover versions - there's barely time for the originals
Remove from the medicine cabinet any prescription that claims to make you thin, happy, young, calm, powerful, sexy, more colorful, more monochromatic, more awake, more asleep or undead
Evict from your head your spirit animal, psychic guide, ancient ancestor, your doppelganger, evil twin, past life regressions and alternate personalities - there's hardly room for you in there anymore
Just let Pluto go
Eliminate the following negative words from your vocabulary: "jealously, anger, hate, alienation, despair" -
also any compound German words that attempt to meticulously describe minutely nuanced emotional states
Now you can just say "I feel bad!"
Whatever takes up space is obsolete - abstractify