It’s a Thrill to be Afraid

It’s a thrill

to be afraid --

to discover

you’ve mislaid

your last capacity

for sense, and care --

to fall into the dense

exasperation of despair –

knowing there’ll be

nothing at the end --

that there’d been

nothing to begin with --

that sin lives at the core –

and there isn’t any more –

besides a fairy tale

whose moral is:

you’re dead

before you die –

it’s a thrill

to tell that lie.




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