the crazies

the crazies
they wander around
with big eyes and big hair and big ideas
making things

and the others
they also wander
happy and healthy and loving and free
but they make nothing

so if you want to make things
you have to be a crazy
with big eyes and big hair and big ideas
but you can’t be happy
and you can’t be healthy
and I guess you can’t be free

but you’ll be able to make things
and you’ll be special
and the others will want to be crazy like you

and everyone will love you
and in death you will be loved
in your grave you’ll roll in crazy love
and the dirt will ooze with poetry

but you’re not alive to see it, really
and you’re not alive to taste it
so while in life you had big eyes and big hair and big ideas
only in death will you be free