Nurses rushed past,
flashes of white and blue,
Benny watched them go;
someone must have slit a wrist
or saved up their pills and ODed,
he didn't know,
just one from the women's
dormitory who'd had enough
and wanted out.
One tried to hang herself
in the lavatory from the water pipe
with a nylon, but they got her
down in time(much to her
annoyance afterwards.
Benny tried on his first day
in the lavatory outside the locked ward,
but someone saw him
and grabbed him down
before he could succeed;
bastard soft heart,
Benny yelled at the time.
A flurry of voices
from the passageway.
Maybe it's Yiska again.
Have to get a free ride
out of this place somehow
she had said the day before.
Benny pulled on his cigarette;
inhale he mused, and forget.