A Book By Its Cover

Please don't talk to me about insanity;
I cut my teeth on it

You stand there and tell me you've
totally 'lost it,' when I can see
you never even started

I can't tell you how it works;
it's just something that happens

it begins in the bloodstream
and pushes its way out--
you can feel it building:
the scream forming in your throat,
the wires tightening in your head...

that click you hear isn't necessarily
an empty chamber at your ear

Now you marvel at my calm facade,
but this is no textbook lunatic before you;
I'm one of the dangerous ones

I just know how to hide it