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Johan Deckmann's Smart Ways to Use Poetry in a Street Fight. Though only the book's cover has survived, we speculated that (if the physicists are right about multiple universes) there's some world in which the book's pages exist. Through the powers of several arcane tools at our disposal, we were able to purloin five fragments. We present them here, exclusively. The first is an advertisement from the book's front matter, for a Lord Byron-branded boxing glove "used in every important poetic convention." (The ad notes that "unprotected figures" are "protected by hyperbole.") The second fragment instructs on how to deal with "a cowardly poet of society" by throwing him on his face. The third recommends grabbing the "pencil-hand" and using an enjambment to incapacitate any "poetaster" who has whipped out a synecdoche. The fourth involves using a powerful blank verse to leave someone curled in a ball, or an epigram to slash a bone in two. The final fragment addresses how difficult it is for an idle rhymer to train and offers a tip for the writing desk. (The book was, of course, second-hand, and the red markings on the pages are as we found them.)