Don’t Be Poets

Don't be poets.
I think the violet sky came from Hank Sr.;
I pulled the plot of Hercules for a poem,
And several hundred others I stole from the ether
Of common myths.
My greatest Trilogy,
The main idea is Ecclesiastes';
Pulled from Star Wars Prequels,
Star Ship Troopers,
The Matrix,
And Black Hawk Down.
I did invent my technologies,
But other poets have found them before.
My Space Opera,
I learned about the concepts of space travel on Mass Effect.
My tall cities I found in The New Jerusalem.
Logos, it comes from Montaigne, 
Lao Tsu, and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
My concept of Love?
I found it first,
But Plato found it before even me.
I craved Neoclassical while reading Wordsworth,
Finding, after having written it,
That Spencer and Milton had pioneered it before me;
It turns out, Romanticism was a movement
Which rejected Neoclassicalism.
Context Clues, 6th Grade English Classes with Ms. K___
And Textbooks about Critical Thinking
Inspired my out of the box---
Is it?---thinking.\
Tech-Ed fascinated me with Maglevs
Western History and Econ and Gov
Inspired me to write civilizations,
Humanities and Western History 
Inspired me as a clacissist 
Conversations with friends and family
Were ripped from real life,
And put verbatim into my novels and poems.
A thousand paintings inspired my visualizations.
A thousand movies and CGI inspired my imagism.
Animes inspired my storytelling.
Reveries about Nuclear Fusion and working security at a Logistics Company
Inspired my Skiffs, Skilds and five kilometer long boats.
Mythology, the bare bones of plot, archetype,
I simply take them, and stitch them together
Battling Arthur and Charlemagne
With Thor and Athena.
A thousand Edutainment videos
Would create verisimilitude...
Teach me... and a thousand books, too.
Shaka's Horns, Loin and Chest,
Jerusalem's Siege---
Oh, and the Bible!
A thousand allusions 
Interpolations,
A thousand neurons created
From a thousand symbols
Ancient and novel;
From mythology,
From history,
From Theology.
Every history I read was fuel;
Every modern event;
Every encyclopedia article.
Euclid inspired my knowledge of objectivity---
And the circle's formula, πd=c.
E=MC^2 inspired me
So did musings on time travel---
From where did they come?
Men and Black, Terminator,
Back to the Future;
The very equation Einstein created
Was used to calculate my CNP.

I created the future---
But it all came from the past.
That is why you do not want to be a poet.

Where was there even one, single,
Original thought?