More Fear Than Passion

“You gotta write your way out.”

“The only way out is through.”

dear diary,
shit’s gotten fucked up,
i can’t remember if I was playing
and forgot to say just kidding,
but now i’m on pills
for reals… 
i’m seeing 6 doctors
and doing insane asylums
like i’m on tour;
the crazies
are the only ones left
sill pure.

once Tom showed up
at the backroom poets in NL,
tweaked out on a bottle of Benzedrine.
he told everyone the truth,
he said, “that was bullshit.
There is more fear in here
than there is passion.”
I fantasized punching him
right in his dentures.

the truth is painful,
only in so far as it reveals
the unimaginable;
Tom forgot it.
they asked him to leave;
they feared it.

fuck him even if he was right,
saying you’re sad
ought to be said every night.

the crazies work at building bombs,
insanely inventing smart ones,
deranged in meetings discussing kill radius.
the crazies see nothing wrong
in this utter despoliation of humanity
until its impossible to be less fearful
than it is to be passionate about love.
Soapbox Artist: collecting art & literature of the worst kind