Get rid of the deadwood,
they say, these self-help books
ripping me off
and every other sucker out there.
We need all the friends
we can get in this
**** world we’re in.
Forget those books,
marketed for idiots
who can’t think for themselves.
Need help getting far
in this world?
A bit of advice?
Two words to make all those
books obsolete:
be lucky.
Van Gogh, Poe, Galileo,
Kafka and Darger.
Five right there who worked
their ***** off and were left
with nothing but disdain
or poverty or loneliness.
They weren’t lucky enough in this
**** world we’re in.