Thomas Edison invented the light bulb,
but he didn't invent Times Square; Hugh
Hefner invented the centerfold but not
the Internet; Walt Disney didn't invent
motion picture cartoons, but he ran w/ it;
Hell, Henry Ford didn't invent cars but u
would think that he invented car crashes
& exhaust; Van Gogh, Picasso, Pollack &
Basquiat didn't invent art; they broke it;
no one poet invented poetry; u wouldn't
know it from the way they go on about it;
have u ever heard a poet brag? it's kind of
pathetic; oh, they get signed to lucrative
contract occasionally; it's never enough;
ask Dylan Thomas & Wallace Stevens,
Bukowski & Eliot; poets have to pay rent
& prostitutes just like everybody else;
No, mankind has never really invented
anything; he's not even his own best idea
Sep 15, 2018
Sep 15, 2018 at 6:13 AM UTC
Thomas Edison invented the light bulb,
but he didn't invent Times Square; Hugh
Hefner invented the centerfold but not
the Internet; Walt Disney didn't invent
motion picture cartoons, but he ran w/ it;
Hell, Henry Ford didn't invent cars but u
would think that he invented car crashes
& exhaust; Van Gogh, Picasso, Pollack &
Basquiat didn't invent art; they broke it;
no one poet invented poetry; u wouldn't
know it from the way they go on about it;
have u ever heard a poet brag? it's kind of
pathetic; oh, they get signed to lucrative
contract occasionally; it's never enough;
ask Dylan Thomas & Wallace Stevens,
Bukowski & Eliot; poets have to pay rent
& prostitutes just like everybody else;
No, mankind has never really invented
anything; he's not even his own best idea
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