Don't write if you have nothing to say
that hasn't been said over and again,
in more ways than your vocabulary permits,
your imagination allows.
Don't borrow metaphors
like they're your neighbour's scissors
and you've misplaced yours.
Don't claim them either,
unless you got them as birthday gifts.
Don't scribble mindless mnemonics
until your brain freezes,
then inspect the wreckage
and call it literature.
Don't waste pages upon pages
if not one of them makes you angry,
teary, or dizzy
when you read them aloud in your head.
I know what they say.
Anyone can be an artist.
Anything can be art.
Well, they lie.
Delusion has sold more art supplies
than Nobel Prizes ever could.
Narcissism has slaughtered more trees
than greed ever would.
Because the world has never run short of people with something to say;
only of those who'll say what everyone thinks but no one else would.
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