worse before it gets better

You could make this poem better by making it worse.

finer points

The members of the workshop were much too comfortable using power tools, when precision instruments were called for.

establishment

He had settled comfortably into believing himself one of the avant-garde.

amorphous couch

The poet tends to get too comfortable in the inchoate.

wallpaper poetry

The poetry book was a wallpaper sample book. Full of nice patterns and lovely colors, comfortable to live with.

as though entitled

I struck through the word only because it seemed a bit too pleased and comfortable in its place.