Upwards, to the heights and beyond / Staunch in your goals, embrace ideas from the whole world. Fly higher, disdain the plane. Train yourself to thrive with challenge — this is the secret to fun. Shun the basic and easy, and craft your own virtues for yourself. You’re beyond the hand you’ve been dealt.

Appropriate reality to the max. Stay hard in your life’s task like the hammer. Stay strong and keep pounding, and stay bright like flint. Your life is one— this is your only stint.

Animate yourself, animate your soul. Never stop making and breaking, and shaking the status quo.

You know much— have much trust in yourself. You’re the wisest in the room. Artistic explosions like sonic booms!

Hustle with guile— and crank up the dial to 11. Rise beyond the leavened bread. Write your own book— you’re read.

ERIC