INSANITY
Like a vivid hyperbole,The sun plunged into April’s freshness,And struck its sparkling madnessAgainst the barnlike dejectionOf this dark red insane asylum.A softly clutching noiseStumbled from the open windows.Now and then obliquely reeling shrieksRose, as though from menTo whom death had assumedAn inexpressibly kindly face.A man stood at one window,His gaunt face trembling underneathA feverish jauntiness.A long white feather slanted backUpon his almost shapeless hat,Like an innocent evasion.Hotly incessant, his voiceMethodically flogged the April air:A voice that held the clashing bonesOf happiness and fear;A voice in which emotionSharply ridiculed itself;A monstrously vigorous voiceMockingly tearing at lifeWith an unanswerable question.Hollowed out by his howl,I turned and saw an asylum guard.His petulantly flabby faceRolled into deathlike chips of eyes.He bore the aimless confidenceOf one contentedly playing with other men’s wings.He walked away; the man above still shrieked.I could not separate them.
Like a vivid hyperbole,The sun plunged into April’s freshness,And struck its sparkling madnessAgainst the barnlike dejectionOf this dark red insane asylum.A softly clutching noiseStumbled from the open windows.Now and then obliquely reeling shrieksRose, as though from menTo whom death had assumedAn inexpressibly kindly face.A man stood at one window,His gaunt face trembling underneathA feverish jauntiness.A long white feather slanted backUpon his almost shapeless hat,Like an innocent evasion.Hotly incessant, his voiceMethodically flogged the April air:A voice that held the clashing bonesOf happiness and fear;A voice in which emotionSharply ridiculed itself;A monstrously vigorous voiceMockingly tearing at lifeWith an unanswerable question.Hollowed out by his howl,I turned and saw an asylum guard.His petulantly flabby faceRolled into deathlike chips of eyes.He bore the aimless confidenceOf one contentedly playing with other men’s wings.He walked away; the man above still shrieked.I could not separate them.
Like a vivid hyperbole,The sun plunged into April’s freshness,And struck its sparkling madnessAgainst the barnlike dejectionOf this dark red insane asylum.A softly clutching noiseStumbled from the open windows.Now and then obliquely reeling shrieksRose, as though from menTo whom death had assumedAn inexpressibly kindly face.A man stood at one window,His gaunt face trembling underneathA feverish jauntiness.A long white feather slanted backUpon his almost shapeless hat,Like an innocent evasion.Hotly incessant, his voiceMethodically flogged the April air:A voice that held the clashing bonesOf happiness and fear;A voice in which emotionSharply ridiculed itself;A monstrously vigorous voiceMockingly tearing at lifeWith an unanswerable question.
Like a vivid hyperbole,
The sun plunged into April’s freshness,
And struck its sparkling madness
Against the barnlike dejection
Of this dark red insane asylum.
A softly clutching noise
Stumbled from the open windows.
Now and then obliquely reeling shrieks
Rose, as though from men
To whom death had assumed
An inexpressibly kindly face.
A man stood at one window,
His gaunt face trembling underneath
A feverish jauntiness.
A long white feather slanted back
Upon his almost shapeless hat,
Like an innocent evasion.
Hotly incessant, his voice
Methodically flogged the April air:
A voice that held the clashing bones
Of happiness and fear;
A voice in which emotion
Sharply ridiculed itself;
A monstrously vigorous voice
Mockingly tearing at life
With an unanswerable question.
Hollowed out by his howl,I turned and saw an asylum guard.His petulantly flabby faceRolled into deathlike chips of eyes.He bore the aimless confidenceOf one contentedly playing with other men’s wings.He walked away; the man above still shrieked.I could not separate them.
Hollowed out by his howl,
I turned and saw an asylum guard.
His petulantly flabby face
Rolled into deathlike chips of eyes.
He bore the aimless confidence
Of one contentedly playing with other men’s wings.
He walked away; the man above still shrieked.
I could not separate them.