There Are Better

THERE ARE BETTER

So if no one has ever
Told you ?

There are better poets
Out there
Than you

Live poets
Dead poets
Poets who are well …

Somewhere
In between

And there are better lawyers
Better bartenders
Better fighters
Better musicians, barbers
& better drunks
But no uncorrupt politicians
Who do or can do
Anything interesting
Or of much merit

At all

And no matter
What you do or
What you write
Or who you are?

Your popularity
Your anger
Your blunt denial
That you’re any
Different than they are
Any more human
Or even less than

Doesn’t mean
A thing

Because all
Your rants
Your words & all
Your screams

Thrown up
Upon the missing
Pages of human history

Are all uniquely

Yours

Born out of all
The beauty &
All of the constant bullshit
Of this world

Anyways

So
In the end?

If you judge them?

Then who the fuck
Judges you?

~ R.M. Engelhardt
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