What does it mean
to be a loser?
Who taught, me, you, us
What a loser is?

“Winners don’t quit
and quitters don’t win”

Do you want to be cool?
Do you want to win?

Do you know the song
by the band echosmith?
“I wish that I could
be like the cool kids
'Cause all the cool kids,
they seem to get it”

I guess I felt jealous
of the popular crowd
they had friends
they were pretty
and all I had was hate
against the world
against the church
against Jesus
and all the rest

hard to tell the story
of a thousand rainy days
the rain didn’t stop teaching
but who could hear its talk?

Was Jesus cool?
a criminal, tortured
an outcast and reject?

Was Bodhidharma?
A teacher with only two students?
A foreigner, outsider, immigrant?

How about all the hermits?
poor, “unsuccessful”
“purposeless”?
Whose ruler do you use?
How do you measure?

How do you measure
this poem or yours
if you join us
how can you tell
if you win or you lose?

the theme is just a suggestion