Gentlemen, this is my last press conference

I know how he felt, he was on to them

but they were on to him too he knew the rules

before he felt free to break them but this

was worse this was nihilism with a human farce

the bastards he'd beat them yet some remain obscure

some are obscure and later become popular

some posthumously some never if everyone

says you're no good you could be great

or no good some look at what's there and see

what isn't which makes them visionaries,

ex-eulogists for Robert F. Kennedy, or dupes

of doubletalk who have seen the future

and know it's a basket full of discarded documents

some quit some conquer their appetite

and thus achieve the desired thinness

                                                                   —David Lehman