Beasts bounding through time. <br /><br />Van Gogh writing his brother for paints<br />Hemingway testing his shotgun<br />Celine going broke as a doctor of medicine<br />the impossibility of being human<br />Villon expelled from Paris for being a thief<br />Faulkner drunk in the gutters of his town<br />the impossibility of being human<br />Burroughs killing his wife with a gun<br />Mailer stabbing his<br />the impossibility of being human<br />Maupassant going mad in a rowboat<br />Dostoevsky lined up against a wall to be shot<br />Crane off the back of a boat into the propeller<br />the impossibility<br />Sylvia with her head in the oven like a baked potato<br />Harry Crosby leaping into that Black Sun<br />Lorca murdered in the road by the Spanish troops<br />the impossibility<br />Artaud sitting on a madhouse bench<br />Chatterton drinking rat poison<br />Shakespeare a plagiarist<br />Beethoven with a horn stuck into his head against deafness<br />the impossibility the impossibility<br />Nietzsche gone totally mad<br />the impossibility of being human<br />all too human<br />this breathing<br />in and out<br />out and in<br />these punks<br />these cowards<br />these champions<br />these mad dogs of glory<br /><br />moving this little bit of light toward<br />us<br />impossibly