A Shot in the Dark

Lenny Bruce was called "a sick comic" because of what he satirized: narcotics, racism, illegal and medically dangerous abortions, the death penalty, sexuality, organized religion, prisons, the mob, homo-phobia. The language that he used to invigorate his work was as foul as the things that he spoke out against.

Lenny Bruce had the nation on the run! Lenny Bruce once said,to paraphrase, "I am not sick. Society is sick." But Lenny Bruce was a shaman, who got sick from intimate contact with the elements that he satirized as if by sympathetic magic. He was not fragile, but he was innately sensitive and insistently raw, so, naturally, he’d get sick treating these societal ills. These ills range in pain and significance over a time and Times, relatively, but Lenny Bruce was in anguish from taking them all on, and, eventually, he became insensitive, closed, scarred, and paranoid, but not for no reason.

In ancient times, equestrians believed that the horse and rider are one. The Horse of Apocalypse that tormented Lenny Bruce was called Heroin and its reins were tied off by a cop. To make him stable, he resorted to Heroin, taking that horse to a sad, maybe long vacation, if you believe the newspapers. Continue with Lenny Bruce