The Definition of Insanity

This poem was too long to submit without premium membership, so I have submitted it in two parts, but it is meant to be read together. Part one.... They say he is clearly psychotic, if knowing that was even a possibility. The visible signs are all present, his behavior is a dead give away. "Normal" people don't act this way, they act like everybody else. When did being different, become the diagnosis of being clinically insane? Their image of "normal" is repeatedly drilled into our heads. Through the direction of our leaders, our education, multi-media. The television and cinema screen their greatest tools for propaganda. A man and his lovely wife, with their two point five children, A duplex in the suburbs, undistinguished from any of the others. a neatly trimmed lawn, a few hedges, a two car garage for their one vehicle. A couple truly in love, rarely do they argue, with great sexual chemistry. Working constantly through the better part of their lifetimes making enough money to pay their bills, and splurge once a week. their companies CEO, the bill collectors, and the government's tax brackets, all work together in unison, to ensure that they are never more than comfortable. At the age of sixty-five, they have a small nest egg saved up together. Only now, well into their "golden years," are they allowed to live as they choose. Their biggest motivation and desire, is simply to survive for another year. When they die, their children discover they have no money in their accounts. It always is a shock, revealing your parents have died completely broke. Ideal examples of the perfect "American Marriage," left penniless in their grave. Luckily for the children, they had purchased a small life insurance policy. The payout almost exactly enough to cover the burial costs and funeral. Even experiencing this unsettling revelation at their parents expense, These same children are pre-destined, doomed, to follow suit. Brain washed into believing that their outcome will somehow be better. They spent less, saved up more, purchased a better insurance policy. Unaware their parents shared these exact thoughts, forty years prior.