Gonna sit
right down
and write me
a grand manifesto
I’m gonna become
one of the head honchos
in the community
and I’ll need
some dogma
and a little personal philosophy
to boot
gotta make
my presence felt
in every room
I ever enter
and I gotta make
it my own
whatever it is
for whatever it’s worth
and the words
will flow
and the stanzas
will develop
and it may
be good
or it may be bad
that’s not
for me to decide
I just have
to put it all down
and my words
are daily recorded
and that much
remains a certainty