there's a new reality behind each page the world with a sour twist not fated the end results a not-so-silent rage a sudden moment now unintegrated no simple blindness can account for this such tone-deaf answers as implode the mind the stultifying horrid mental hiss the failure to comprehend plain humankind what matters now is simply that i plod through this high pile without a single scream the absence here of vivifying rod to separate the waking from the dream what matters that i dreamed and hoped and taught if in these minds so little has been caught