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Portrait of the artist as [insert adjective] (Free verse) by Nicholas Jones
I am over-educated post-Marxist
socialist cultural materialist
intellectually dishonest Christian
pre-apocalyptic middle class trade unionist
militant indie snob artistic false modernist
polite confused homosexual.
I am occasional insomniac republican defensive
unsociable misanthropic solipsistic neo-Kantian
noisecore fan.
Whimsical when the world is drowning. I am unliked
and un-likeable, questioning enquiring arrogant
never satisfied emotional illiterate. I am irrelevant
outmoded useless untalented book reading bore.
Accurate self-definition = self-awareness = self-loathing
if you've any fucking decency. I don't even hate myself properly.
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