POISON: A Diary of Haphazard Musings & Irreverent Paranoid Conclusions (

by Bob Bryan

HELLO? ANYBODY OUT THERE?POISON is the Final Installment of my 3 Part, ‘Cognitive Dissonance Trilogy.’ Part 1 PRISM, Part 2 PRISON, and now Part 3 POISON, valiantly attempt to document the emotional / psychological / intellectual nightmarish ordeal suffered by others and myself during the pernicious COVID-19 Pandemic.POISON is the festering malignant and naughty creative ‘discharge’ oozing from my crippling solitary confinement and quarantine.I GOT CAUGHT UP IN THE OUTBREAK!!Cognitive Dissonance is a duplicitous state of mind, a blurred malaise, a fractured overlay of dull blasé blasé static, the horrible din of relentless gray noize, the spiked buzz you get from a sugar high.REALITY as I had previously related to it, now seemed a lil ‘off,’ nothing seemed to sync-up properly. Fraudulent voices, energies fighting for the same space, a ‘Cage Fight’ with no Champion or Dark Horse to root for.POISON is a figurative break from the bland reconfigurations that routinely surfaced from the primordial secretion of my shimmering, anomalous, rambling ‘Normality.’In essence, my Trilogy became the wretched mirrored probe gazing directly into the jarring paranoid existence I was suffering through.I also felt it my ‘duty’ to document what I was experiencing so that future generations could better understand the psychological damage levied upon our individual and collective psyche.Paradoxically, this writing process helped me to ‘keep it altogether’ by purging and acknowledging this wretched infernal psychic drama.

324 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 12, 2021