The Gullibility of Pain

[billy]

In everyone there lives
a weakness for the language of
the psychic charlatan.
That love may reach beyond
the confines of mortality. i'd split the poem here to reinforce the change
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.

i'm of a mind with ray on the last 3 lines jack for more or less the same reason.
almost everyone i know is into spiritualism or clairvoyance. apart from the last three lines and the break, (opps, is the 'though' needed on L6.) i think it works. i think many will disagree that it's all charlatanism, but you get the silliness of it all across in a decent manner. (one i agree with)

thanks for the read.