Episodic grandeur
the “I” can not only perceive
but withstand and
thus claim testimony
to truths we would rather not believe.
Indeed, a mania it might be;
at the beginning, indeed.
Without a master to show one
how to turn mania into
something one can use to peek into
the self, the places others
would rather not look,
then mania is less than a stone,
impossibly a seed.
