How many days

Self-impoverishment books read like this:
Divide your life into cookies and eat one every hour
Are you satisfied? If not, read on.

It's a hook that won't fish.
A dog that don't hunt.
According legend, inanimate objections
Make entertaining court cases.

Antagonism is at the heart
Of the urge to plan:
A fight to the death
With brutal, red time.

Warning signs fill cluttered heads
Disordered organs anxiously pray
For the savored grace that schemers drooled up.