Before I write no book
I'll write a bad book
Before I write no verse
I'll write bad verse
Before I just sit on my butt
and do nothing
I'll get out and mess up something
Before I let failure sublime
I'll fail each time
I'll be the author of a messed
up work
sitting back wondering if
I'll ever get a perk
Knowing nothing but failure
will come
I nibble on each crumb
Before I let anyone stop me
they'll have to take a pistol
and drop me
When it comes to my books
and verse need
If I have to be the only
one that read
this is as far as I'll succeed
Makes me no difference as long
as I don't lose any blood and bleed
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