Dear Permission to be Powerful Reader,
You reek of ambition.
But I’ve had your kind before.
Hundreds of times.
No—thousands.
You think your music is new.
Your slang clever.
But I was there when your great-grandfather whispered the same ideas under candlelight…
Thinking he was the first to question his place in the world.
You think your ideas are yours.
Your inse…



