Insecurities

Would I be called names

For being jealous 

Of another successful poet?

Or is that a creative quirk

You're allowed to own?

To be your own version of Bukowski;

Be your own eccentric Hemingway;

Be your own unsteady Zelda

And sail through life 

On waves of despair 

That somehow, unbelievably,

Lead you to success, fame,

And immortality.