You forget, doctor, that madmen have great strength

My poem "Men Who Aren't Crazy" has been accepted by The Cascadia Subduction Zone. It was directly inspired by Tod Browning's Dracula (1931) and the performances of Helen Chandler and Dwight Frye as Mina and Renfield. The title comes from one of Renfield's best lines, as he wanders through a parlor scene ("The doctor's pet loony is loose again!") to kibitz a strategic vampire-hunting exchange between Van Helsing and Harker: "Isn't this a strange conversation for men who aren't crazy?" As a person with some medical excitement lately, I think I can sympathize with the characters even more now than when I wrote the poem.

[edit] gwynnega informs me that this poem was accepted just in time for Dwight Frye's hundred-and-seventeenth birthday. February 22, 1899. I am delighted.