she asks if I suffer hallucinations.
no, I suffer them nothing; I do, though,
enjoy them much more than most other folks—
I mean, I like my imaginary
friends better than my real ones, not that I
enjoy hallucinations more than other
folks enjoy hallucinations; I mean,
your average jo either gets caught up in
games of denial and confusion between,
or among, realities—how narrow-
minded is that? it’s the scope of these things
that tends to overwhelm most; they forbid
themselves the growth, and so their fragile minds
splinter and fragment and then comes madness.

dmpitchford