Cluster A - Part 2

Studies in composition

       
        The Ghost Of Madness by Ion vincent DAnu

I’ve been trying to go against the grain for so long,

I can’t remember anymore.

Little did I know that by offering a form of opposition?

I would end up developing,

a mental condition.

No more work--the stigma attached will never fade;

“Unemployable,” they said.

No more love--the caustic nature of the pathology

means now I’ve become medicinal mythology.

No more chances to be normal--I wanted to be

the epitome of the conservative and formal:

Never mind.

At least now I can continue to rebel and disappear in

my immersive submission of hatred, terror and contrition,

free to go against the grain

See?

I can go against the grain:

Against everyone, everybody,

but most importantly

myself.