dysfunctional lives 

madness, a gene of success

the queen's gambit 

whiplash 

troubled intellectuals 

ambitious, a thorn at their side 

poking and prodding, if to reach greater echelons 

of greatness

have their names burn in flame 

in a last fiery explosion 

before long-lived memories are reduced to single-line statements 

collaged in the annals of history 

melancholia 

that i identify within myself 

a stroke of creativity 

a recognition of genius 

an original thinker 

is but a lonesome journey of thoughts 

nothing is real 

except for the horrors I breed out of my incoherence