A man who gets accustomed to his sickness sorrow becomes his nicotine stick as long as the air brings him oxygen as long as the pipes carry water as long as the bulbs defeat the pitch black as long as the pilot light is not dead to stream life to his burners
he would rather hide uncompromised to disintegrate and rot in a cell of bleak mood desensitized from such solitude adopted to share his round table sips from the same tea cup like a long, long time tenant like any bad habit, it's a love and hate affair
no hypnosis can persuade this stagnancy but a genocide of his survival kits like a razing fire ravaging his house to the ground, pulverizing every inch of his dismal comfort corners to a coal
absolutely barren with only his emotional baggage left he will relearn how to walk to see how the daffodils sprawl at the hillside to watch their chimney smokes disappear for there would be no door to keep him in