What Makes Me Better Than You Poem by Andy Barrette

What Makes Me Better Than You



I'd like to think that I'm a dreamer,
ambitious, a true believer,
but what really makes me better?
Am I average to the letter?
I have never fled the world.
I have never hopped a train,
never had my life unfurled,
never really gone insane.
I've never retaliated
or, for myself, instigated
that which I've dreamed I will do,
so what makes me better than you?

(07/31/09)

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