Heroes

Hunter S. Thompson 

Jonathon Davis 

Ernest Hemingway 

Since I was young 

I have had heroes 

Like anyone else

Striving to reach a creative ideal in which I would be 

In some measure 

Similar 

Charles Bukowski 

Thomas Pynchon 

James Joyce  

Hoping against hope 

That whatever made them the people they are

Also resided in me 

It did 

And it does 

Jackson Pollock 

Vincent Van Gogh 

David Foster Wallace

An unfortunate fact about these creative types 

Is their lives 

I understood that these people 

Who I aspired to be 

Turned their pain into poetry 

And focused on the pain 

But pain is not poetic 

And creativity is not waiting at the bottom of a bottle 

Only glass and vomit 

And if I’m lucky 

Rehab 

And if not 

50 years of age 

Reviews

[John the Baptist]

A lot of suicides and drunks on your list. Be careful.