“culture is individual” ~ R. H. Blyth

So . . . “individual” a wise man claims

Is culture, never imitative or

Derivative (not secondhand)?  It aims

To be unique, it seems, a single door

Of purest gold sprung not from parents but

From nothing with no predecessors in

The past.  Tell that to Shakespeare with his glut

Of sources.  This is like the sourceless sin

Of Satan at the golden throne of God,

The wickedness ex nihilo.  Forebear

My sneering lips.  A genius may be odd

But genius does not come from absent air.

  Christ spoke and there was light.  His speaking lips

    Forced sources.  Nothing comes from blips.

~ Phillip Whidden