Written by Bogdan Dragos
don’t trade the madness
“You need help,” they
told him. “Get some therapy, some
counseling, something. Reach out, man,
you need help.”
He would raise his
glass at
such advice and say, “Oh, hell yeah, I
need all the help I can
get. Thanks.” But he
would never actually reach for it
He’d reach for the
closest bottle
and pour himself another drink
and maybe reach
for some leg
or breast or ass
By this time the ladies knew he
wasn’t a bum, even though
he looked like one
with his ragged, soiled green suit
and his worn out shoes
his cobweb-like greasy hair
and the unkempt beard that looked
like he was chewing on
a dead, rotting octopus
He was loaded
with cash
despite all that
And the explanation was simple
He was
a poet
He laughed at all those well-meaning
advisers and their
concerns
He would return to his home
in the slums
and wrestle with a door that wouldn’t
open because of the mounts of
empty bottles from
the other side
and would enter through the window
once more
fall on his face
start bleeding
from his nose and lips
Stand
and look at the redness pooling on
the dirty floor beneath
and start laughing
“Haahaaaah! Advising me to seek
help. What garbage. Calling me
a fool.
Fools are those who trade their madness
for the privilege to fit in.
Fuck those people! I’m gonna write
a poem with the
used tampon my new girl gave me.”
He went to his
desk
searching his pockets
Text © Bogdan Dragos
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