This I believe.

I believe in the random line

accidental color

chance glimpses behind

veils of delusion

*

Perhaps Jimi Hendrix presaged

waterboarding when he wrote

"feel like I'm living at the bottom of the bay."

But also, to be forced to breath

air--isn't that a form of torture as well?

Call it . . . in-hell-ation.

Consciousness is given just enough oxygen to realize that it is doomed.

*

Still, as Cioran pointed out, each moment of this tedious hell is a sublime miracle.