Rev. Gerald Dillenbeck Poet Political Verse

Politics of Mental Health

My cerebral palsied Fetal-Alcohol daughter
asked her teacher if she could be her Substitute 
while said teacher will be absent next week.

I was asked for my opinion 
on the wisdom of accepting this offer:

While volunteering with grand Cinderella intentions,
she will Deep Drunken State rule 
with Ugly StepMother tyranny. 

She emulates President Trump's monotheistic style 
of King Midas vs Disobedient Rabble.

With her, we call it Oppositional Defiant Disorder. 
With him, we call it Chief Executive DisOrder. 
Same mental-emotional-behavioral healthcare indifference.

I can look at the two of them Right side up
and see Health and Safety Disorder 
may be why "patriotic" things 
are as they capitalistically are

Monotheistically monopolizing
monetized 
anti-religious Value v DisValue.

So that Oppositional Defiant Disorder
has become the singular unsung purpose
of the Department of [Not]Justice
and the Department of Homeland [In]Security
and the Department of [Mis and Dis]Education
and the Department of Health and Human [Dis]Services
and the Department of [Violent]Defense
has reformed 
to become, once again, the Department of [Anti-Peace]War

Valuing [not]human and [not]civil and [not]religious Rights
[vs polytheistic Wrongs]

Disvaluing humane 
and civil 
and inter-religious Leftovers

Which,
when coldly unappealing,
often get thrown against the nearest wall

Left, 
although not right, 
for Cinderella to clean up

Which is her thankless
health and safety
civil service job.

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