People say I'm crazy.
But I haven't the time.
What time is it?
Been living down here about four years.
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Superb paranoid poem Shaun. I like the way it builds dramatically. The monster is a clever personification of paranoia. It's a very frightening ten from me!
An excellent write on mental illness. Beautifully crafted and vividly depicted. A one of a kind dramatic monologue woven by a versatile and brilliant Poet. To my Poem List.
The man's compulsion to keep moving, his obsessive fears, his avoidance of human engagement, his honest admission of sickness... all of these are hauntingly captured in his own voice. Gives me chills. A 10;