Four Steps to Becoming Great

1. Become your "own" person immediately:
Move across the country, away from all
Who try to bleed out your new-found notoriety
Like a French pioneer to a maple tree.
(Especially family).
Keep your secrets doubly hidden - A turtle
Cloaked in the darkness of a cardboard box
With no holes for ideas to escape.

2. Buy a soapbox.
Ensure it is old enough that you aren't
The first to shout down from its spine.
An alpha lion,
Roar your opinion as you repose while the rest work.
Laugh at all structure and society. Judge all cons
Conventions and rituals. Giggle starkly, hyena,
Show nothing but bristling nose hairs
Bear aristocratic snot.

3. Be the leader of your lone wolf pack.
Just because you're solitary doesn't mean
You can stop
Asserting control. Ditch the small town,
The ripe, fat deer.
Find a corporate desert where every brass grain
A penny in your fortune. An indistinguishable
Carcass is your meal, and home of umbrella'd bone.
The ripe rot quickest anyway.

4. Don't listen to anyone.
Their obsolete thoughts mix and taint
Your uniqueness like raisins in a chocolate chip cookie.
Avoid unnecessary conversation; buy earplugs if need be.
Do anything to barricade yourself from others
Words. Constructive criticism only builds
Tombs. Each letter a brick.
Lastly, break out the champagne. Enjoy
A life of nothing
But greatness.