The Art of Disillusionment by David Synn is an offering of "pornography or salvation" for the streetwise melancholy. David Synn directs us to look at the harsh reality of human existence by diverting our glance inward to our lives tortured by self inhumanity. This glimpse into our mongrel selves and societal decay is expressed in a melodic cadence of words escaping print and entering the mind like a song. Hidden below the darkness is an underlying candle of hope, hope in one's self, hope in humanity "for she is the one who is bleeding."- Chad M. Cardinal

"Staying true to his previous work of giving voice to our innermost thoughts, Cynical Rhymes and Lullabies forces the reader to realize that none of us are immune to the necessity of identifying our vulnerabilities. Shining light onto our own experiences, thoughts, and secrets, David Synn paints pictures with his poems that create a graffiti mural of necessary truths and the human desire to mask our cynicism and dress it up as something else entirely. Not afraid to cut open the scarred covering over his incredible heart, David proves that we are all more similar than we would like to admit."-...