It’s not an altar; it’s a bed of sin and platform of deceit

the shock of waking up

Much Madness is divinest Sense - (620)

Emily Dickinson

Much Madness is divinest Sense -

To a discerning Eye -

Much Sense - the starkest Madness -

’Tis the Majority

In this, as all, prevail -

Assent - and you are sane -

Demur - you’re straightway dangerous -

And handled with a Chain –               

Learning that the place—and some of the people—behind a bulk of m…