IN PRAISE OF STUPIDITY

IN PRAISE OF STUPIDITY

stupid I be
stupid
    as can be

as stupid can
be
  without rigidity

all this stuff on these pages
scribbled, nicely typed
must
   have been
out of my mind

Gestapo
2. 0
blitzing my
breakfast

storming up
the garden path

but still
    chance to burn
all these
feeble, useless texts

and yet
I would die
for them
       let them wring
my scrawny neck

and you it was, more
than anyone warned
me
about this very eventuality
time. and time again

since nothing in these words, these lines

incontestably good
for rescuing humanity.  restoring
our sanity

saving democracy
     or indeed,

raising it from the dead