A legal drafter’s constant challenge is choosing language that captures the parties’ or legislative body’s intended meaning without being over precise or too vague. The drafter must shape language, striving for that elusive “perfect” word or phrase that will allow the contract or law to remain effective and reasonably flexible into the future. This technique takes practice. 

1. Introduction

On April 19, 2024, Taylor Swift dropped her newest album, The Tortured Poets Department (and The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology).[1]  The lyrical savant takes listeners through a journey of happiness, heartbreak, affairs, post-mortem examinations, alien abductions, zombies, Super Bowls, and, of course, Florida.  Although law students everywhere likely listened to the album while studying for (o