The Mad and Madman
"... And everybody goes 'awww!'"*
It's the mad ones,
The ones that burn:
A "starry dinamo"**
And never learn.
Souls all a flame,
Heads on fire.
They make a spectacle
To admire.
Then they are gone
And left aside,
Or it's best that they are,
So flames subside.
A luxury,
To be so mad--
One we can't all afford.
A mindless fad,
A lesson in discord.
"There has never been a greater deed..."***
The madman shouts
What we need,
(Or what we should all) know.
But do we heed?
The obvious:
Just beyond us...
Just outside the fog that
envelopes us.
He tries to lead,
To walk us though
That fog and beyond it:
To something new.
A luxury?
For us to have
Something like a prophet,
To plant the seed
From which we all profit.
*Jack Kerouac from On The Road
**Allen Ginsberg from Howl
***Nietzsche from The Madman
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