Confessional Clarifications 1

It’s not that I’m unaware of their talent. They are accomplished poets and deserve all the recognition they receive. But it’s a fixed game for me. I’ll never be that accomplished in their genre of poetry no matter how I try. I am not underselling myself. If anything I’m overselling. I’m assuming that I can be accomplished in some genre akin to theirs. Some way. Somehow. Wayne Gretzky never played in the NBA. Even Mario Mendoza batted above the Line one season, but not in the NHL. And Richard Wilbur can never be my patron saint.