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The Asylum |
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Jaime Fradera Senior Member
since 2000-11-25
Posts 843Where no tyranny is tolerable |
The Asylum I sit naked in the counselor's office. The counselor drones: Now let's talk about your feelings. I tell her I won't talk. The counselor is annoyed, and says would I like to stay another month? I can't. She get irritated and Says that's all she asked. Irritated that I won't do what I am told ... You just stand there looking cute, and when something moves you ... ... |
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icebox Member Elite
since 2003-05-03
Posts 4383in the shadows |
I was in a locked ward one New Year's Eve and realized that this is one of the few human "holidays," perhaps the only one, that is totally artificial, created simply for the human need to mark time as significant. It has no link to other parts of existence; it is diconnected, apart from the world and not always especially sane in how it is celebrated. It is not linked to the Earth and its seasons, nor to any political, religious or ethnic pride. Very simply someone decided it should be. Looking around that ward at the many who were just as disconnected, just as insanely altered, I realized that every day for most of them it was 1 AM on New Year's Day...every hour of every day...and some one else had decided that for them. Just a memory and a thought provoked by your poem. |
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Huan Yi Member Ascendant
since 2004-10-12
Posts 6688Waukegan |
This is good Read it twice With your permission, would like to add it to my file of poems by others. Again very good. John |
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aujussy wolf
since 2003-08-09
Posts 1215Michigan |
sometimes people need to put themselves in the other persons shoes , maybe if they talk to you like a person and not a number .... liked this it made me think of an old friend , peace this new years ... ~JW |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
yep, and you just stood your ground, cutie eventually some do understand, amigo |
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