Impelled toward vigor,
we're demeaned by violence,
by nihilistic philistinism,
by wishful mysticism,
by competing mythologies
of those who cooperate only to copulate,
by individuality stifled with surveillance
and the cynical fratricide of civil war.

What insufferable guests we are in the world!

Go all rococo
in your mental temple,
become unfit
for civil service.

Find wanton acquaintances
and focused friends.

Brook no interference.
Reject no assistance.

Move outweird from the center.

A taboo, once violated,
deflates like a pricked balloon.

Become a person of one,
of few, or of many.

And two to avoid:
the despotic and the neurotic.