In the great poem by Charles Bukowski,
“No Leaders Please”
Invent yourself, reinvent yourself.
Don’t swim in the same slough.
Invent yourself, reinvent yourself,
and stay out of the clutches of mediocrity.
Change your tone and shape so often that they can never categorize you.
Reinvigorate yourself, and accept what is.
But only on the terms that you have invented and reinvented.
Be self-taught.
And reinvent your life.
Because your must.
It is your life
and its history
and the present
belong only to you.
