cold hot ugly
evil good expired
excellent  poor rich
who says extremes must come
in twos?

Turtle he is a
turtle however he
is a hot turtle

The Tortured Artist a
term so redundant it
should fuse: Tartist?
now that's a
title I'd advertise

It's like:
if I'm depressed, then my
poetry is a gazillion times
deeper
more serious
better

people
praise Coleridge, Poe, Van Gogh or
Sylvia Plath or David Foster
Wallace maybe because
people
are glad that they aren't
the ones to sacrifice sanity for
Good Art

art is
artists are

art is worth the pain only
when it's not
mine

The picture is blurry or
maybe I'm not seeing clearly
either way I've resolved to
dissolve this moment in
time, and I absolve myself of all
ties connecting me to that
image that laughing
face that at one point
must have been
mine

Just in case of
stormy weather I
have storm windows which
are also optimal for
keeping me warm at
night

There is something
satisfying pairing 'nothing' with 'numbing' they
sound so similar are used in the same
context I want my mind
numbed
nothinged
see it works there too, just the dictionary doesn't
know it yet