nikola tosic is
one of the most important
emerging english language poets
who, just like joseph conrad,
has enriched the english written culture
by bringing an outsiders point of view,
and, just like shakespeare,
reminds us that uncompromising realism
is still an ideal to be reached.

visual art is decorative
poetry is ugly

visual art is manufactured to be sold
poetry is a search for the truth

it takes decades to become a visual artist
we are all poets

you need approval to be a visual artist
we are all poets

visual art needs a professional sales system
poems last a second in our minds

visual artist pretends to be a rebel to sell more
poet is a rebel that never sells

visual artist is great when they sell more
poet is great when they make more poets

visual artist competes
poet helps

great poet is not a poet who
published hundred books

great poet is a poet
who created hundred poets

i made 156743poets.com
to motivate myself
to find 156,743 poets
before i die

dead poets society is wrong
for glorifying only a few
dead poets.

most people today
know less than ten poets
of which most are dead.

a better film would be living poets society
which glorifies millions of poets
living amongst us.

professional poets and philosophers
make as much as sense to me
as professional salad eaters and air breathers.

in the near future
there will be university degrees and global communities
for professional salad eaters and air breathers.

they will look down on anyone else
who does not have a PhD
in salad eating and air breathing.

and as these elites distance themselves
the stupid masses will get shittier and shittier
in salad eating and air breathing.

skynet came back to our time
and understood
that it is more efficient to kill people
by slowly replacing human creative activities
with artificial intelligence
than directly fight them.

so skynet invested in film, media, art companies
rewarding artificial intelligence projects
and impoverishing non-automated creative workers
slowly replacing all human creativity
with fully automated content
turning all humans into stupid passive consumers.

the only remaining resistance were poets
who have hidden deep underground
to escape anti-poetry drone terminators
because skynet could never automate writing poetry
which would fool people into believing that it is real
because poetry is actually not so easy to create.

on instagram
you saw a poetry competition
offering ten thousand us dollars
and of all the poets in the world
you chose to tag me in the comment.

that made my day
and i hope this poem
makes your day,
or at least an hour.

being tagged by you
made me more happy
than winning that competition.

i would like to buy you a drink.
if you are in serbia or italy
give me a call at +381632689

only value
of my poetry
is in the ability to
create many more poets

long time ago
doctors could not
cure diseases
by dissecting corpses
because
priests said no

today
poets can not
prevent war
by dissecting power
because
politicians say no

one of many reasons
why i am a poet
is to show
that any idiot
can be a poet.

this will hopefully
create more poets
and if we have more poets
we will have more of everything good.

some great poets never wrote a poem
some great poets write really bad poems
some great poems write really good poems