why does barukh write about himself in the third person?

because
that way
it is easier for him
to tell the truth
about himself

don’t forget
barukh is not an official poet
only a self-appointed one

he can’t simply
put his pen on the paper
and write that
i'm a genius genius
i believe in god
and I believe that god
believes in claude
that's me that's me

barukh hasn’t received a permit
from the poets’ guild
to claim
that god believes in him

or something to that effect

barukh started to write poems
for himself

not like
homer
goethe
francois villon
fernando pessoa
or william bloody shakespeare
whose poems belong in
school books
so they are officially poets
with capital letters

barukh is not an official poet

and as if
that wasn’t enough
neither rhymes nor rhythms
can be found in his so-called poems

so
no surprises
that those grown-ups
who think of poetry 
as a kind of sealed
official thing
that has certain
indispensable
and well-known formal rules
formal and procedural rules
so these grown-ups
there are plenty of them
we all know people like them
think 
that barukh is not a poet
but just a „poet”

and barukh
doesn’t have
the balls
the chutzpah
the courage
the nerve
to not give a shit
about what these grown-ups say
so he thinks of himself 
as just a „poet”
and he is simply unable
to put into writing
something like
that:

i wanted to fool everybody

whereas a real poet
sometimes
has to write stuff like that
for the sake of the truth

so barukh
as a non-official
and not very brave „poet”
would rather hide
behind the third person
and write the truth
from there:

barukh wanted to fool everybody

because
that way
it is easier for him

second stanza:

the other reason
why barukh
writes in the third person
is that he doesn’t love himself enough

he doesn’t love himself enough
to write his poems
and put them on the internet
and say:

lo and behold
here I am
barukh
the poet
give me
a warm welcome 

because
how he could ask others
to do something
that he
himself
cannot do

because he
i mean i
cannot give myself
a warm welcome

because
i myself think
that i am just a „poet”
written in all lowercase
and in quotation marks

so for me
i mean for barukh
it is much easier to write
that:

lo and behold
this is barukh
the poet
give him
a warm welcome

much
so much easier
it is for me
to love barukh
and ask for love
for him
than for myself

and it is much easier
to write lovingly
about my protagonist
if it is not me
but
it’s him

in the third person singular

no surprises there

it is much easier
to love barukh
than me