Visions of a Madman: (a glimpse into the schizophrenic mind)

pgh, now 74, was once compared to Ken Kesey and Kurt Vonnegut in a college textbook on Abnormal Psychology (1972) as having similar but false views of insanity and the insane citing his poem, SELF-KNOWLEDGE: SELF-KNOWLEDGE We are the aged forbidden to pass among the young? we are the deceivers caged in by the righteous; we are the insane walled in by the sane. You, You are the young, the righteous, the sane, If by some quirk you must enter our colony, we will accept you, For we are the aged, we are the deceivers, we are the insane and know full well who we are pgh 1972