Schizo Hymn - Warren La Rocque

Dedicated to Mark Twain

I can do no wrong, for I do not know what it is.

I eat a bitter fruit, one to peel away the mask of normalcy.

It splits open when I bite, rotten or not rotten, pure or not pure.

Did you think it impossible,

to swim to distant shores unhampered?

Cargo fire, desert island, compass dropped into the water.

Your ship is sunk, your mask is split,

all that is left is ballast and the devil’s words.

I can do no wrong, for I do not know what it is.

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Warren La Rocque, who recently became engaged to Jack Griffin (better known as The Invisible Man), continues to write poetry despite the never-ending horrors. He is allegedly a 22-year-old junior at the University at Albany, an accusation he refuses to comment on. He enjoys a good vampire, and having sicknasty times with his evil fiancé.