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Darkly Imaginative Prose

Written over the course of 35 years, this gritty, bizarre poetry, prose, and storytelling will have you questioning reality and the nature of sanity. Here you'll find haunting portrayals of mania, psychotic episodes, and depression. Read evocative tales of life-changing events, brief stories of supernatural nightmares, and dozens of pages of some of the strangest subjects ever addressed in poetry!

From page 58-59:

Fighting Off Madness

Worthless

like a single shoe abandoned on the side of the road

Pointless

like waiting for roses to grow out of concrete

Useless

like opening car doors for ghosts

Hopeless

like expecting cats to start caring about anything that doesn't benefit them

Reckless

like voices careening through vacuums

Aimless 

like shadows dissolving in darkness

Monotonous

like washing dishes each day

Repetitive

like washing dishes each day

Ridiculous

like gravity taking a day off

Exhausting

like trying to stand still on a treadmill

Annoying

like when the voices won't agree with each other

Exhilarating

like finding your name on an NSA watch list

Upsetting

like flushing your drugs

Disastrous

like leaving your fingerprints at the scene

Difficult

like finding new places to safely stash bodies

Frustrating

like improvising when the store's out of rat poison

Challenging

like evading an entire police squad

Infuriating

like getting sprayed in the eyes with mace

In vain

like pleading your case when you're caught in the act

Depressing

like pressing your fingers in ink


Fighting off madness is worse than you think.



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