Insanity is all played out as a stylistic manner
In the Nineteenth Century certain artists
Discovered that they could exploit
Their own mental disorders
For compositional purposes
And that madness was a fit subject
For novels poems paintings and plays

By the Twentieth Century we saw
The Theatre of Cruelty
The pictorial representation of nightmare
The serial suicides of troubled grunge rockers
And reality dramatically figured
As a blessed rage for disorder
A competition of unreason

The vogue for insanity had well and truly ended
When international politics meant live televised slaughter
When crazy fictional characters
Succeeded to elective office
And invited their disciples to believe
That they by their words alone
Could abrogate the laws of nature