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