Sliced Ear


What is the difference
Between learning and mimicking?
You are repeating information
With both
Where is the line?
The distinction?

I have learned
Yet others view a parrot
What about piggy-backing?
A good idea gone to waste

I have learned
Yet others see a dummy
Propped on a guy’s hand
A tool for "the man"

I have learned
Yet others watch my Matel
Am I just a Ken?

I think, I feel, I understand
I substitute, combine, adapt,
minify, magnify, modify,
put to other uses,
eliminate, elaborate
reverse, and rearrange

But originality masks as cloned
I am no Dolly
I am Van Gogh
Misunderstood
Thought insane
But a genius


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