writing poetry is so flipping hard

[Achebe]

There's epic poetry (with which I would lump most of rap), which only a distinguished few of us can really do, and then there's lyric poetry, where I think the bit of everyone's a performer and no one's there to buy the tickets does apply

It's an understatement to say that a 'distinguished few' of us can write an epic - I think it's more like one in several billions (not including rap in this, which is not hard in the least).