most of the time, 
we do the same thing 
as everyone else, 
completely unoriginal, 
if not our contemporaries, 
then someone’s done it before, 
but sometimes we break through, 
and really get into it, 
and hoot and holler and say, 
i’ve done it, 
and revel in the sense 
of pushing the frontier, 
all on our own, 
until we look around 
and realize that 
we’re all on our own