House Keeping
...After she left the house for realities unknown,
abandoned rooms became discrete spaces
fully occupied by her thoughts.
Buses still stop two doors down,
sparrows hop over the stalks of dead rose...
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Categories:
clipboards, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Lobotomy
...they called it mercy,
the white coats and clipboards,
a room with thick walls, sterile,
and him sitting there—
eyes like rain-soaked concrete.
Florida sun spilling in
too bright, too harsh,
...
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Categories:
clipboards, 12th grade, character,
Form: Free verse
Bright Bulb Spark Ipso Facto
...Not do bright after all
Glowing like a bulb
Covered way down deep in manure
Misrepresented and posing
as fertile soil
Backed up by so called expert
quasi intellectual bright sparks
t...
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Categories:
clipboards, slam,
Form: Free verse
Let Not the False Betray You
...Poor or too rich,
different in form or race?
Remain slave to no opinion,
identity is a label for a can of beans.
Nothing living and upright
need bow
to a tribal or common hitch or halter.
...
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Categories:
clipboards, poetry,
Form: Free verse
House Keeping
...After she left the house for realities unknown,
the abandoned rooms hollowed out
small discrete spaces for her to rest within
should she ever return.
Buses still stopped next door,
sparrows h...
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Categories:
clipboards, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Psychosis
...She sits by herself in the day room
absent-mindedly taking her med,
her head is a blank, she knows nothing,
as she's braceleted, brought to her bed.
Sedation has settled her nightmares
and del...
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Categories:
clipboards, addiction,
Form: Quatrain
How I Work
...Ten monitors
Nine hours
Eight safety messages
Seven binders
Six coffees
Five computers
Four clipboards
Three maps
Two microphones
One stubby pencil...
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Categories:
clipboards, work,
Form: List
Deeper Than the Surface
...They locked me in a glass cage
Stare at me with their clipboards
Look at me like I am a freak show
Observe me like an animal
Treat me like a time bomb
And cower away as if I am a monster
I ...
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Categories:
clipboards, absence, anger, anxiety, pain,
Form: Free verse
Psychosis
...She sits by herself in the dayroom
absent-mindedly taking her meds,
her head is a blank, she knows nothing,
as she's braceleted, brought to her bed.
Sedation has settled her nightmares
and delivered...
...
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Categories:
clipboards, depression, sad, stress,
Form: Quatrain
Disorientation
...She sits by herself in the dayroom
absent-mindedly taking her med,
her head is a blank, she knows nothing,
braceleted, brought to her bed.
Sedation has settled her nightmares
and delivered her safe ...
...
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Categories:
clipboards, depression,
Form: Quatrain
Dementia
...She sits by herself in the dayroom
absent-mindedly taking her med,
her head is a blank, she knows nothing,
braceleted, brought to her bed.
Sedation has settled her nightmares
and delivered her...
...
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Categories:
clipboards, sad
Form: Quatrain
20fabelseven
...20FabelSEVEN
Charlexes Fabels
Gardenor
A Mexican sweat is just a teepee with a fire made hotter and a rock placed where
you can pour the water on the hot rock to make some steam come up and they...
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Categories:
clipboards, on work and working,
Form: Prose Poetry
Visiting Hours
...You didn't shake
as much in
the psych ward,
possibly because
of the medication.
A cocktail of
paxil, seroquel,
lithium and sedatives.
The white walls
dimmed your
pale complexion.
The pi...
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Categories:
clipboards, life, loss, lost love,
Form: Narrative
Civil War
...it finally was acknowledged as a problem. something has gone wrong
we must LOOK BACK retrace our steps and explain why exactly
this corpse is still moving. hold the clipboards tightly- what should
...
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Categories:
clipboards, allegory, angst, life, people,
Form: Free verse
Dementia
...She sits by herself in the dayroom
absent-mindedly taking her med,
her head is a blank, she knows nothing,
braceleted, brought to her bed.
Sedation has settled her nightmares
and delivered her...
...
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Categories:
clipboards, confusion,
Form: Verse
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