12-12-2011, 07:45 AM
In everyone there lives
a weakness for the language of
the psychic charlatan.
That love may reach beyond
the confines of mortality.
The sensible shut it away.
Though who dares blame the gullible,
whose naievety comes not
from stupidity but pain,
visions of the gulf
extending after death.
Fathers, mothers, children, friends,
gathered in the balding head
of the stranger at your door.
a weakness for the language of
the psychic charlatan.
That love may reach beyond
the confines of mortality.
The sensible shut it away.
Though who dares blame the gullible,
whose naievety comes not
from stupidity but pain,
visions of the gulf
extending after death.
Fathers, mothers, children, friends,
gathered in the balding head
of the stranger at your door.
"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges." - Gene Wolfe