Madness: a form of love (free edition) by Max J. Lewy - HTML preview

Mad Transgressions (Put Acid in the Pope's

Woopie-cushion!)

Predictability, sanitization, lethargy, routine.

Humdrum, normalization, resignation - obscene.

Euphemism, everday-ism, truism...

What else can these mean?

Colloquialism, rationalism, blandism,

Conformism, scientism, hypocrisism:

Mental morphine!

Sheepism on amphetamine.

How it all, how it all provokes...

How it all provokes: my spleen!

It is really all, much too much, to even be seen,

By the many whose eyes are covered by - a dream.

'O how adult, oh how sedate' -

(Such is the way, they hide their hate!)

'I am frightened of death, I am frightened of life;

I think I'll just keep my head down and stick with my wife!'

I have a plan, I have a scheme:

To free their minds of this sterilization team.

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A dangling crucifix... a bloody roar!

We hope to make the soul a little less obscure...

Dance free in the meadow of perplexity!

This life is one of contradiction and complexity -

You have to be a bit strange to make it through all the adversity.

So: don't stint now on a little 'perversity',

Bataille on steroids is hardly enough!

Think 'Philosophy in the Boudoir' –  we like it rough!

Our startling claims and acts will reveal it

in its Being - Such to almost justify the timid in fleeing!

Something bold, something knuckle white -

Something to amaze and lighten up the World's Night -

Opening it to presencing,

Disclosing its true nature,

While covering it in confetti;

(Do you enjoy the biscuits, called 'amoretti'?)

The unconscious is wild, release your inner child.

The world is a stage,

And on this, my page,

I intend to wage,

A war upon the mediocre.

(You! Yes you! I'm going to put a sprinkle of LSD in your tapioca!)

Put acid in the Pope's woo-pie-cushion,

And laugh it off.

Yes, you queer, I am a toff!

Because...

Reason is a dreadful bore,

And madness, sweet madness:

Madness is more honest, more secure,

More alive, lubricious - more mature -

More pure, more core;

Enough to make you soar;

Something, most definitely to adore!