Tuesday 10 August 2021

Your Wicked Future

by Nick Gisburne



It’s clear you are an educated man
A paragon of scholarly success
So let us plot to formulate a plan
To fill your wicked future with excess
Abandon those who dream but do not act
Their appetites will never match your own
To triumph, let your trickery attract
A following their ethics would disown
Irreverence for every rule you break
Inspires a reputation, a mystique
Give nothing to the nobodies. Just take
Be arrogant, astonishing, unique
    The rhetoric of failure: ‘do your best’
    To profit, simply trample on the rest