No Leaders Please

jparadisirn, ,

Happy Monday!

Photograph by Julianna Paradisi 2022

Perhaps, like me, you’ve made or are thinking about making a major life change. If so, I hope you find this poem as inspirational as I do.

No Leaders Please

By Charles Bukowski

invent yourself and then reinvent 

yourself.

don’t swim in the same slough.

invent yourself and then reinvent 

yourself 

and 

stay out of the clutches of mediocrity.

invent yourself and then reinvent 

yourself.

change your tone and shape so often

that they can

never

categorize you.

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Published by jparadisirn

JParadisi RN, OCN emeritus, is a multidisciplinary artist with a focus in painting and writing. Her paintings and short stories have been published nationally. She has exhibited artwork in galleries throughout the Pacific Northwest. Julianna was a frequent contributor to Off The Charts, the blog of the American Journal of Nursing as a blogger and illustrator.

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