The answer?

Brag.

It seems almost a universal habit that if you are a rapper and don't know what to rap about, you should start rapping about what a badass you are.

On the other hand (not that I've done much looking, but) poems where the narrator is the poet or poet's persona actively bragging about him- or herself seem relatively rare. There seems to be this idea that bragging is unseemly or dilutes the purity of the art.

I say screw that. Today, if any of you humor me, I challenge you to write (whatever genre and prose/poetry/script whatever) a piece bragging about or up-talking yourself. It doesn't have to feel true to you. You can adopt a persona that does feel this way about yourself, even if down at your core you truly don't. I encourage you to go over-the-top with this.

Have fun with it.

To inspire you, I leave you with Eminem, from GOAT (but really I could give you Eminem lyrics about how he's so great ALL DAYYYY, because that's how much he talks about it):

I'm a goat

and for those of y'all who don't know what a goat is

it means the greatest of all time

and I consider myself one of those

so thank you very much, here it goes!

....

I'm not sure how this is gonna come off

they're probably gonna think that I'm coming off as cocky (haha)

like I just started giving a fuck what you really think about me

see, the thing about me

is you don't really know a thing about me

everyone's making a stink about me

like there's some kind of a aura of that of the king around me

lil