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Bipolar

There is a new word describing me

type one, type two, type three

nothing is as it once seemed

brown bandages become red, ******

catheters go up my urethra

when I refuse to take your drug test

by accident.

I'm clean, now, clean and pure

I take Abilify to make sure

and remember that it's all an imbalance

and remember that everyone else is balanced

and remember that the whole ******* world is balanced

on a tether formed by gravity

gravity-- the severity of this situation-- is lost on me

and on that tether we all walk

unbridled by the weight of our bodies

we can shake all that makes us human

and pathologize every thought crime

every idea needs to be cleansed

with a catheter into the brain

we would be able to test it for drugs

and find that all I was high on was existence

and how terrible it is

that we will all die

but that shouldn't bother a doctor at all, now

should it.

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Written by
sansara-justinovich
American
Published
May 2, 2013
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