The Stamp and the Stigma

The office of credibility
Stamps their approval
Signifying
A latent rising over the stalk

Chafing, is the stigma
Medicalizing or criminalizing
The avid loophole watermarks
Blurry in their dispossesion
Searching for means to an end

What end of perspective?
Could ask for proof
Of insanity
In a doctors authoritative opinion

Avoid the brain drain
because the permanent records track
Putting the mark of cain
On social histories of the past
Copyright © | Year Posted 2012

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Grisetti Avatar
May 20, 2012 at 10:57 AM
A profound statement about modern institutions. Many poets walk the edge of madness, and sometimes I cross over.
Debrosse Avatar
May 20, 2012 at 11:00 AM
It might be an instincive urge to be free at all costs
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