Day Begins/ A Poet Insane by Mark Nicholson

Day Begins/ A Poet Insane

by Mark Nicholson

Day begins, day ends.

Night begins, night ends.

And on and on and on and on.

And I have discovered the nonreality of trivia,

life is like madness in a doll-house where

everything is supposed to be perfect.

Insanity,

whispering happily from the corner reminds me,

"Old man Reality died last night, they say

thinking killed him.

Such a shame. A friendly, ugly old man."

And I want to laugh and laugh and cry

and smash my head against the grinning wall,

and listen to the thunder in my mind.

I'm not deaf or blind,

just a little insane.