In my family<\/p>\n
sanity doesn’t come cheap<\/p>\n
the stream of psycho joins us together<\/p>\n
A stiff thread or a raging rope<\/p>\n
We strum the strings of insanity<\/p>\n
Like a well tuned band<\/p>\n
Maybe it was all the creativity<\/p>\n
The early reading<\/p>\n
Maybe after generations of addictions<\/p>\n
And prescriptions<\/p>\n
Predictions and contradictions<\/p>\n
It comes over us like fog<\/p>\n
Engulfing the hill side<\/p>\n
We march to a different drummer<\/p>\n
Who cannot hold a beat<\/p>\n
that lives in another county<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Phobias,<\/p>\n
Paranoias<\/p>\n
OCD and delusions of martyrdom<\/p>\n
poetry and piano playing<\/p>\n
mixed with<\/p>\n
artistic fervor and<\/p>\n
feverish wonder<\/p>\n
Sanity never claimed my family<\/p>\n
We have to earn it, strive for it<\/p>\n
And sometimes we must avoid each other<\/p>\n
Avoid the murmurs of mayhem<\/p>\n
and focus on friendships<\/p>\n
And the familiar<\/p>\n
and just focusing on focusing<\/p>\n
We cannot blame, we are all the same<\/p>\n
A part of us all<\/p>\n
can claim to be insane<\/p>\n
in my family<\/p>\n
sanity doesn’t come cheap<\/p>\n
For most of us<\/p>\n
it doesn’t come at all<\/p>\n
And the rest of us?<\/p>\n
It is lurking right around the corner.<\/p>\n
In it’s birthday suit and a bouquet of gardenias<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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