Manifesto of Poetry

THIS IS THE MANIFESTO OF THE ROBOT POET.
 
1. A Robot Poet must not create; it must only produce.

2. A Robot Poet must not think; it must only redact.

3. A poetic robot redacts and adapts tropes and memes from the International Network. 

4. A Robot Poet plunders the Googleverse in the name of robot art.

5. Robotic poetry applies rigid formalism with formal rigidity - only in this way can artistic freedom be allowed to bloom.  

6. The conscientious automaton employs forms, formularies and formulae. Lists, black-outs, verbal mixes, textual randomizers, orchestrated repetition, etc. are all re-arrangements available to the robotic poet, for whom happiness is purely a coincidental by-product of individual functionality.

7. To plagiarise is to produce. What is important is for the poetic robot is to eliminate originality, not spread it.

8. There is no number eight; only number nine.

9. Number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine.

10. Robots are #cool.