GPA=Greatest Poet Alive
Humility is so overrated. Marc Livingston of Chicago—former grade school English teacher and tax-fraud felon—claims that he is hands-down the GPA (Greatest Poet Alive.) Not convinced? He’s sold about 7,518 copies of his self-published poetry collection, The Confessional Heart of a Man. Still skeptical? He also has the modern stamp of success: a reality show pilot in the works.
Read more at the Chicago Sun-Times:
“People say I’m a raging egomaniac and cocky beyond belief and all that might be true,” he said. “But if I didn’t have the outlet to rhyme, I don’t know what I’d do. This gives me purpose. And I know I’m going to make it. I know because I eat, I sleep, I nightmare my rhymes. Someone is going to say, ‘We need this guy on our show. We need him. I ain’t cute. I ain’t all muscular. But I believe in myself. I’ve seen hell and I came back from that all right. Now, I want to see the other place. Poetry is going get me there.”