'Cents Ability' (Modicum)

Staying in the house breeds a sort of insanity always. Every house is, in this sense, a hospital. - Thoreau

reason left the room

i wanted to follow it

but it wasn't going where i wanted to go

it didn't know what i know

it was too slow

missing an emotional glow

it wasn't kind

with its simple mind

so i went my own way of treasonous vanity

screaming laced profanity

forsaking expensive sanity

leaving a penny behind for luck

'cuz i didn't have a buck

Author's Note

"If one listens to the faintest but constant suggestions of his genius, which are certainly true, he sees not to what extremes, or even insanity, it may lead him; and yet that way, as he grows more resolute and faithful, his road lies." - Thoreau