"The Happinings" (cut up)

cut up poem written while i was in a state run mental ward dwelling on the freedom i was being deprived of.

Forget get the facts

Life is in your hands

Yet, always remember times measured in sand

Stuck in a bottle put away for pleasure

I could shiver as well as shake

But, I must look composed to my captors

Because without my muse I have forgotten

TIME and SELF-image

The leaves are on fire but, I won’t feel the heat

Until this punishment concludes

What a struggle between mind & body to feel

My fire extinguished

Leaves on fire

F**k the facts the leaves are on fire

Yet they shiver with the struggle of self-image

And forgotten time in your hands

Composed captors and extinguished muses

Bottles of sand won’t spell punishment

On my body like wet news articles

Of crashed flight 22

Crazy monkey suit maniacs are doing cartwheels

Throughout the halls while,

Bureaucracy is Babylonian

Filled with iced tics and hollowed out horseflies

That never sting in the same place twice

Author's Note

this is a few short poem parts mashed up together by using a cut up technique so please try to follow along written pretty much in stream of Consciousness hence the run on

Reviews

[stephen dillon]

Poignant, and REAL write, as I read it as a reader...
Touched me deeply. Ponders me to ask you if this really happend...
If so, you're such a master of wording how it really felt,
translated it into an artwork. I am grateful for this one.

Take care,
- Elisa

[stephen dillon]

YUP it's about me going to a mental hospital

Now, this is not weird for me, I'm there daily for my mom in law... I feel sorry for you, and I wish you all my best :) just know, I'm here for you if you need me.

[stephen dillon]

well im good now i just cannot get a job b/c i'm scared of everything

[stephen dillon]

i hopefully am getting ssi

I can understand that so well... it is a whole process... time is the key. I send you a message.

[Lily Mae]

I feel this to the bone.. a friend of mine has been going through this very same thing.. xo You penned the emotions so well..xo