Madness
by jerome


mad!  ranting raving screaming echoing silent mad!
disillusioned pit-fallen ear-bleeding mad!
sacriligious carefully calculatedly holy mad!

madness in the bloodshot eyes!
madness in the booming voices!
madness in the bursting ears!
madness in the obscene hands!
madness in the decrepid minds!
madness in the venomous breath!
madness in the maniacal grins!
madness in the repetitive arms!
madness in the bulbous heads!
madness in the darkness of space!
madness in the flooded worlds!
madness echoing in the silence...

mad! mad! mad!  intellectually genetically mad!

madness knowing insipid truth!
madness seeing through blinded eyes!
madness feeding on arsenic wine!
madness running courageously afraid!
madness kissing herpes lips!
madness hearing without ears!
madness breathing with splintered nose!
madness speaking with broken voice!
madness touching with no power to feel!
madness leaving without arriving!

the madness that echoes the silence -- 
the silence of my generation