Citizen Kane’s Mission Statement

 

 

            I may be dwelling in naivety

            But with disheartening certainty

            Most of those I idolize

            Dissipate and stop creating

            When they get the money

            I don’t understand

            I say to myself

            Were I to come into all that money

            I’d probably give it away and

            Give it away and get myself

            Back to here but safe, you know

            In some shitbox but writing

            Only helping others to write

            But instead these people I love

            They say, “Well, you know

            It’s been a hectic schedule.”

            And then they take a few years

            And go to Fiji

            And when they come back

            Their work sucks and they’re

            Joined the choir invisible

 

            This is not the kind of phrase

            Your mother mocks

            When you say

            “I will never be like that

            To my children.”

 

            I tell you with certainty

            My friends

            That I will NEVER be like that

            I will NEVER go to Fiji

            I will NEVER quit this madness

            Because if I do

            I will no longer be I

            So you can take that to the bank

            I won’t.