Long Psych ward Poems

,It's like some long lost fairy tale 
That's handed down through time
But couldn't be, as you will see
For this strange tale is mine.

I chose to take a country road 
I do from time to time
To...

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Don't want to be stuck
in the Trauma Prevention Department.

Don't want to work that hard
on dogmatic compartments
for politically correct CAPITAL INVESTMENT
governments
over-investing in cautionary
conditional
chronic win/lose mistrustful
competitive dissonant miscommunications
and excommunication
which is counterproductive
for best Systemic Therapy practice

Of mindful-civil cooperative...

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Day 7

Teacher 
She thought she heard lightening outside with the sun out.Notice Bruce's Mama was making some sort of noise .The look in her eye was terrifying . Oh my goodness Teacher's thinking stepping back...

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The Wall Street Journal recently reviewed Allan Horwitz's book, "DSM: A History of Psychiatry's Bible", which claims that 'DSM', the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, is a 'social creation', as in: what real...

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How come they call it Labor Day when nobody works?
And why Pool-Table?  Where's the diving board?  the water?
How can you play "Draw-Poker" without paper and pencil?
Do Negroes really have bigger knees?
And Flashlight: A...

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“Not even with a mask or 6 feet. 
OK, 6 feet is military protocol.
 You’re trying to get the people to train them 
so when the cameras, 
the 5G come out, 
when they’re going to...

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"When I was a kid my dad left me in a bad way .... he was 
in the lives of my sisters and brothers but he wasn't in mine."

      ...

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I studied cosmology for 4 years before I realized there was no mention of make-
up or hair styling.

I saw the movir "Superfly", and didn't understand why they never even showed a 
zipper!

I wanted Lasix surgery-...

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If they'd told me I'd fall for you
I'd have offered them the number
To the local psych ward -
After a sufficient Google search
To ensure they received
The proper care they'd need.
If they'd said to me,
"One day you'll...

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Social uselessness is a virtue of its own,
Those we cast aside, glance at and then away from quickly,
Lest they notice, and smell our guilt,
Are free to live immodestly,
There being no need for posturing
When one's invisible.

Trees...

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The psych ward,
The place everybody assumes is all padded rooms and restraints,
People think that being in the hospital defines you.

So tell me,
Does having been in hospital define me?
Does it define me as crazy or unsafe?

Let...

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Just as God cast Lucifer from his Millennial Kingdom
So too have I been ousted from your Turbulent Heaven
And as a fallen general would fall on his sword
So too do I feel icy metal piercing my...

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In the psych ward,
There are people who don't have homes, or parents, or friends.
In the psych ward,
There are patients who have no hope and feel they are worthless.
In the psych ward,
There are people who will...

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The Doctor asks me how I feel and I reply
“Better than ever, better than ever!” 
My brain says, “Insanity has lost its appeal 
And I don’t want to be CRAZY forever.” 
Moonlight peeking through the...

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"It was 2 or 3 years ago
As best as I can recall
A slight chill in the air
Maybe early spring,
or maybe late in the fall

Queens County Hospital released me
on that very  fateful day
I had spent...

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Waking up from being in a comma
In the hospital psych ward
I looked around to try and get my bearings
But I still couldn’t grasp where I was
As I slowly opened my red swollen eyes
To see exactly...

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I'm sitting on the floor
I'm crying so much more
trying to erase this pain
trying to forget your face
sitting here with the blade in my hand
running so slow blood dripping down
in a deep red color
flowing freely the...

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(Dedicated to all those who have died alone.)


They cannot fit, they cannot go along,
and the reasons are wide: pride, fear,
even love never tempered by time,
illness of the  heart or mind, or simply
bad, bad luck:...

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If the church is a hospital,
does it have an emergency room?
Can the person with a spiritual heart attack,
get a lifesaving response?  
If the church is a hospital,
is there a psych ward for the mentally...

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Bellevue Blues
                        By Feo.

All my clothes are torn and stained with bleach...

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I dug my toes into the tile floors 
through the custom issued socks
and ahead I looked at the psychs counter
and with energy and lift I would rock

I began to run while the guard looked on
he...

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It's a left at the gas station where the body bags were being piled up.
Then an immediate right behind the home style cooking restaurant where the lady was shot.
Pass the abortion clinic on your right.
Continue...

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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 pink rosed
paintings on the
wall reflected
the first bit
of color returning
to your peaked
gaunt cheeks, and
big...

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How does it feel to be confined to a bed
Alone in a psych ward with the voices in your head
Your actions done and now you're here
How does it feel to be laying here

The lives you've...

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It’s totally inappropriate the way we act.
We fuss, cuss, and fight in the light.
But in the dark we act like two wild beasts,
In loving delight.
The only thing that we agree on,
Is when we want to...

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