Edit with the scalpel,
Practice, please, finesse—
Don’t edit with the hatchet,
And make a bloody mess.
For though the deadline’s looming,
Though you’re almost out of time,
When you stitch it back together,
You don’t want a Frankenstein—
Creature of a story,
Half alive, but mostly dead,
So bury now the hatchet,
The scalpel use instead.
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