THE BELIEF IN HELL

privation is hell ... hell is privation ... it's not what's there it's what isn't ... all the way up to the top and all the way down ... the one thing that defines what it means when somethin's missing ... the one thing you always need but never is there ... I can sit in the den and draw you pictures of it till we both fade away ... but you get it already ... we all do if we're smart ... question is why wouldn't we be ... you know we are ... so we must be pretending when we act so dumb ... not that the pretense doesn't often catch us off guard ... that's what laughter's for ... I'm talking about the folly of pretense that isn't funny ... that makes us angry we were so stupid as to believe it ... that is to have done it ... for that's what belief is ... it's what you do and the part that's left over is what you didn't ... that's the part I'm talking of ... the part that we didn't but should have ... the part we didn't believe ... the belief we don't have but should