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I think sometimes, about what it means to be transgender. I probe and probe for answers, because as the possibility for a new age of enlightenment and safety increases, the others want to know. I’ve come up with many answers, but I can hold to none. I don’t deserve to paint the definition of a culture with the limited experiences I’ve had. I don’t see myself in the transgender identified people allowed on television. I don’t see myself in the transgender identified people making news feeds and giving high profile interviews. And as my nation’s exposure to our culture increases, likely will their curiosity. Am I transgender? Do I have the right? I’ve heard doctors, psychiatrists, may refuse transgender patients access to hormone therapy based on how dedicated or convincing their portrayal of their identified gender. If you want to be a man or woman, you’ll have to look like the women and men on TV. If you want to be transgender, you’ll have to look like the trans identified people on TV. Every single one of us who has an active role as either participant or observer in our society is prey to the crisis of validity. Am I pretty enough? Am I strong enough? Am I brave enough? Mom enough? Dad enough? Competitive enough? Successful enough? Rich enough? **** enough? Pious enough? It never ends. We’re, as a nation of people, being crushed and compartmentalized by this ever present lens, looming over us, exploiting our weaknesses and fears so it may grow wider, and support itself as it follows us, seemingly forever into the future. And one of the worst fears this camera of existential torment exploits, in most of us every day, is, “Do I have a reflection?” “What does it look like?” “Do I look like me?” What does it mean to be transgender? I can’t get away from that question. But I don’t have an answer. There are varying degrees of anguish, depression, panic, anxiety, and other wonderful emotional states that creep up on you and breathe down your neck nearly every waking day. Absolute contempt for the lie of a life you’ve lived till now, and contempt for the fragments still stuck to you, in memories, attached to your body and mind. Fear of those in your own community who would purposefully humiliate, invalidate, or attack you, choosing their own universal moral code over the innate urge and capacity to support the health and continued well being of another human. A ******* neighbor. A ******* pupil. A ******* employee. A ******* sister, brother, son, daughter, mother, father, cousin, ******* blood. What is being transgender like? By my experiences, it’s just like being anyone else in the country. But with a lot more fear, death, exclusion and medication.
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Feb 5, 2015
Feb 5, 2015 at 5:07 AM UTC
What is Transgender?
I think sometimes, about what it means to be transgender. I probe and probe for answers, because as the possibility for a new age of enlightenment and safety increases, the others want to know. I’ve come up with many answers, but I can hold to none. I don’t deserve to paint the definition of a culture with the limited experiences I’ve had. I don’t see myself in the transgender identified people allowed on television. I don’t see myself in the transgender identified people making news feeds and giving high profile interviews. And as my nation’s exposure to our culture increases, likely will their curiosity. Am I transgender? Do I have the right? I’ve heard doctors, psychiatrists, may refuse transgender patients access to hormone therapy based on how dedicated or convincing their portrayal of their identified gender. If you want to be a man or woman, you’ll have to look like the women and men on TV. If you want to be transgender, you’ll have to look like the trans identified people on TV. Every single one of us who has an active role as either participant or observer in our society is prey to the crisis of validity. Am I pretty enough? Am I strong enough? Am I brave enough? Mom enough? Dad enough? Competitive enough? Successful enough? Rich enough? **** enough? Pious enough? It never ends. We’re, as a nation of people, being crushed and compartmentalized by this ever present lens, looming over us, exploiting our weaknesses and fears so it may grow wider, and support itself as it follows us, seemingly forever into the future. And one of the worst fears this camera of existential torment exploits, in most of us every day, is, “Do I have a reflection?” “What does it look like?” “Do I look like me?” What does it mean to be transgender? I can’t get away from that question. But I don’t have an answer. There are varying degrees of anguish, depression, panic, anxiety, and other wonderful emotional states that creep up on you and breathe down your neck nearly every waking day. Absolute contempt for the lie of a life you’ve lived till now, and contempt for the fragments still stuck to you, in memories, attached to your body and mind. Fear of those in your own community who would purposefully humiliate, invalidate, or attack you, choosing their own universal moral code over the innate urge and capacity to support the health and continued well being of another human. A ******* neighbor. A ******* pupil. A ******* employee. A ******* sister, brother, son, daughter, mother, father, cousin, ******* blood. What is being transgender like? By my experiences, it’s just like being anyone else in the country. But with a lot more fear, death, exclusion and medication.
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a dark place, dingy and cobwebbed: the forlorn basement below an unfinished house; there is no hope of an HGTV house-flip or a makeover or the sort of boring/heartwarming story where some nice white family —or conveniently diverse— sets up shop, smash-cuts through a renovation and gets their dream home. no, the house will remain gloomy, this basement filled with emptiness; no one desires to come through the door, no one except the tweakers and the vagabonds and the runaways, the ****** and the pimps, the celebrities and psychiatrists, the demons and the ghosts, the preachers and their seething congregations of judgmental ****** that live across the street, and the ***** teenagers hunting for a place to try out *** no cleaning crew or maid service or organize-your-life guru or even the most experienced of all the world’s janitors could enter this house and clean it or beautify this basement or disenfranchise the squatters within; the neighbors just try and demolish it every chance they get, to rid their sparkling, spotless community of this disgusting eyesore.
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Dec 5, 2018
Dec 5, 2018 at 10:15 AM UTC
the perfect neighborhood
I can't even remember how it started... Drifting from who I was, My normal just slowly departed from me. Foggy glimpses of the boy I used to be. Ripping through the last shreds of my humanity, Right on the edge of insanity, I'm not but a shadow of what, and who I was, Can you guess what was the cause? As time goes on, I am more and more losing myself, Turning absolutely insane, there is now no sense of self. I'm starting to be really bloodthirsty. As time goes on, I more and more want to hurt somebody, Physically. I want to feel something, anything! I'm slowly losing my sanity, It's getting real hard to keep myself from breaking the limits, Of this society we live in! But can you blame me? I just want to feel excited, Happy, Have a geniune smile on my **** face. Do you comprehend An existence like mine, Where you feel nothing? While people around you find happiness, And joy, In things that mean nothing to you? I've been resisting my urges for a while, But I'm slowly getting out of control, Nothing can make me whole. Things are gonna get real ugly, Real soon. Therapy won't help this insane existence of mine. Trust me, they tried, and tried. Phsychologists, psychiatrists, 5 types of antidepressants, A bunch of relaxants, And diagnosis of many, many mental disorders. Nothing could get me back in order, I guess they were too late, I already crossed all sane borders. Yup... For years, to no avail. Go on, mock me, say I'm insane; But it's your kind that did this to me. But please, watch your tongue, Words are hurtful. Hush now, won't you stay a while? Join me with a painted smile. Tragic faces, Stationed at my bedside, Warm embraces, While I'm hollow on the inside. Their eyes betray them, This is only a painted smile. After my attempts, People just wouldn't buy my painted smiles, So they tried, and tried, Everything they could think of. Religion, mental hospitals, therapy, and medication... If only they knew what a monster I try to keep inside every day, Will their opinions change that day, Will they regret it when I unleash the beast inside? So 'till the day I tear myself from the inside, Won't you join me with a painted smile?
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Aug 17, 2018
Aug 17, 2018 at 3:10 PM UTC
I am going crazy.
I can't even remember how it started... Drifting from who I was, My normal just slowly departed from me. Foggy glimpses of the boy I used to be. Ripping through the last shreds of my humanity, Right on the edge of insanity, I'm not but a shadow of what, and who I was, Can you guess what was the cause? As time goes on, I am more and more losing myself, Turning absolutely insane, there is now no sense of self. I'm starting to be really bloodthirsty. As time goes on, I more and more want to hurt somebody, Physically. I want to feel something, anything! I'm slowly losing my sanity, It's getting real hard to keep myself from breaking the limits, Of this society we live in! But can you blame me? I just want to feel excited, Happy, Have a geniune smile on my **** face. Do you comprehend An existence like mine, Where you feel nothing? While people around you find happiness, And joy, In things that mean nothing to you? I've been resisting my urges for a while, But I'm slowly getting out of control, Nothing can make me whole. Things are gonna get real ugly, Real soon. Therapy won't help this insane existence of mine. Trust me, they tried, and tried. Phsychologists, psychiatrists, 5 types of antidepressants, A bunch of relaxants, And diagnosis of many, many mental disorders. Nothing could get me back in order, I guess they were too late, I already crossed all sane borders. Yup... For years, to no avail. Go on, mock me, say I'm insane; But it's your kind that did this to me. But please, watch your tongue, Words are hurtful. Hush now, won't you stay a while? Join me with a painted smile. Tragic faces, Stationed at my bedside, Warm embraces, While I'm hollow on the inside. Their eyes betray them, This is only a painted smile. After my attempts, People just wouldn't buy my painted smiles, So they tried, and tried, Everything they could think of. Religion, mental hospitals, therapy, and medication... If only they knew what a monster I try to keep inside every day, Will their opinions change that day, Will they regret it when I unleash the beast inside? So 'till the day I tear myself from the inside, Won't you join me with a painted smile?
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sure, first we had the schism of the church & state... "oddly" enough... we now live in the 2nd tier of schism -   the segregation of                   state & media... no?     really?          we're not?!            i'm kind of enjoying this ongoing schismatics -     the segregation of church from state, at least left us with the Vatican (i.e. the church-state) - but this, current... segregation of state from the media?       **** me cram my testicles into a monkey-wrench and subsequently watch me laugh... and there i was thinking, that psychiatrists, were the new priests of the secular age... prescribing the alt. to the metaphor of cannibalism in the form of big pharmacological pills, to replace the wafer for bread, or the watered down wine / grape juice of the...     so how does that party trick goes? is that the wine turned into blood? symbolically:    turned water into wine:    flag-wise...   white,        cardinal...   and then burgundy of cardinal red teasing the bishopric coloring of purple? i'm not here to undermine the faith...    i'm here for the self-deprecating humo(u)r... you don't even require atheism to get a laugh out of the conundrum - you, simply need... the deviation from the catholic rites...            an apostasy - but sure as **** it's there... secularism has allowed journalism a monastic status... first came the schism of church from state -    which remained intact in the church-state of the Vatican... so... FAIL... secondly had to come the schism of the state from the media...                i'm watching a schism take place...   apparently...         the comparative concern of church's divorce from the state was easy, having imploded into the Vatican... but the divorce of the media from the state?         apparently... not so easy... the media is already locking-down on obstructing the schism - arguing from an entertainment perspective...        a century or so later, and still, the persistent, media symbolism -      of crafting caricatures of a state...    as the state embodied in nothing more than subordination to its will... media is the new church... and if the separation of the state from the church took so long... how much time, do you "think", it will it take, for the state to segregate itself, from the media baronage? i suspect - as much time as it took to segregate itself from the church's cardinal-lineage.
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Aug 3, 2018
Aug 3, 2018 at 11:34 PM UTC
an apostasy humour
sure, first we had the schism of the church & state... "oddly" enough... we now live in the 2nd tier of schism -   the segregation of                   state & media... no?     really?          we're not?!            i'm kind of enjoying this ongoing schismatics -     the segregation of church from state, at least left us with the Vatican (i.e. the church-state) - but this, current... segregation of state from the media?       **** me cram my testicles into a monkey-wrench and subsequently watch me laugh... and there i was thinking, that psychiatrists, were the new priests of the secular age... prescribing the alt. to the metaphor of cannibalism in the form of big pharmacological pills, to replace the wafer for bread, or the watered down wine / grape juice of the...     so how does that party trick goes? is that the wine turned into blood? symbolically:    turned water into wine:    flag-wise...   white,        cardinal...   and then burgundy of cardinal red teasing the bishopric coloring of purple? i'm not here to undermine the faith...    i'm here for the self-deprecating humo(u)r... you don't even require atheism to get a laugh out of the conundrum - you, simply need... the deviation from the catholic rites...            an apostasy - but sure as **** it's there... secularism has allowed journalism a monastic status... first came the schism of church from state -    which remained intact in the church-state of the Vatican... so... FAIL... secondly had to come the schism of the state from the media...                i'm watching a schism take place...   apparently...         the comparative concern of church's divorce from the state was easy, having imploded into the Vatican... but the divorce of the media from the state?         apparently... not so easy... the media is already locking-down on obstructing the schism - arguing from an entertainment perspective...        a century or so later, and still, the persistent, media symbolism -      of crafting caricatures of a state...    as the state embodied in nothing more than subordination to its will... media is the new church... and if the separation of the state from the church took so long... how much time, do you "think", it will it take, for the state to segregate itself, from the media baronage? i suspect - as much time as it took to segregate itself from the church's cardinal-lineage.
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Museums as art Art as museums Sail the trail to my mausoleum Psychopaths and physicists Psychiatrists and philosophers Philanthropists and pilots and painters
 Declare now, that these are our days – Our hours, and our days These are our city, our hours Our time, our days. 
This is our world – At 14:92 I landed here and claimed it And searched it and found it wanting Of civilization that I could so easily supply By means of wounds and iron And brawn and truth (and just a tiny touch of influenza darling) By means of our Lord, Who grants us all that we desire If only we **** enough of those he did not choose. This is our world – And we shall make it what we will Make it in our own image Teach it that innocence is not knowing the difference between right and wrong Raise it to hate no one But to love itself so deeply That all other love seems hateful in comparison. This is our child, love Yours and mine.
 Here the first shall be last And the last shall be first But once the first are last they shall be Last Last       Last And once the last are first They shall make it so they can never be last again This is our primitive accumulation Of necessary materialism Let’s cultivate matter To make objects that we can place on shelves And in cases – These are our cases And we love them as we love ourselves
 Museums as mass graves Mass graves as museums Kiss me in my mausoleum Priests and prisoners Prostitutes and prophets Pioneers and pilgrims and pagans
 This is our time – And we are dispensing it in spendthrift increments Buying threadbare bandages for our cavernous canyons Buying ample earplugs To seal in the silence So we can somewhat say “look there is peace – Look we have done it In our time it is accomplished” – 
 This is our peace – And we know it by the signs The lions and lambs lay quietly together In our brass-barred zoos For as long as shelves and cases Are intact and the first are first And the last are last And the civilized are organized and holy There is peace – Oh, look We made peace! And as for Solomon and Socrates – We take their words to weave through our new wisdom And when we re-chart the constellations We shall give them each a star And salute them once a year When they come around the universe Oh, look How wise we are! Mass graves as art Art as mass graves There have been no better days There has been no greater time Politicians and pornographers Professors and pirates Psychologists and pastors and pianists
 This is our time – And we are doing with it the very best we know how The last are toiling and trying And the first are trying to think to try – But there is a shortness in our hours And a violence in our peace There is inherent foolishness in our wisdom And disease in our cities And there is death upon our shelves and in our cases. This is our world – We crafted it and declared our truth to be true We sculpted this, our colosseum Please inscribe my mausoleum With “we know not what we do”
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May 31, 2015
May 31, 2015 at 5:43 PM UTC
of dissolution and mausoleum blueprints
Museums as art Art as museums Sail the trail to my mausoleum Psychopaths and physicists Psychiatrists and philosophers Philanthropists and pilots and painters
 Declare now, that these are our days – Our hours, and our days These are our city, our hours Our time, our days. 
This is our world – At 14:92 I landed here and claimed it And searched it and found it wanting Of civilization that I could so easily supply By means of wounds and iron And brawn and truth (and just a tiny touch of influenza darling) By means of our Lord, Who grants us all that we desire If only we **** enough of those he did not choose. This is our world – And we shall make it what we will Make it in our own image Teach it that innocence is not knowing the difference between right and wrong Raise it to hate no one But to love itself so deeply That all other love seems hateful in comparison. This is our child, love Yours and mine.
 Here the first shall be last And the last shall be first But once the first are last they shall be Last Last       Last And once the last are first They shall make it so they can never be last again This is our primitive accumulation Of necessary materialism Let’s cultivate matter To make objects that we can place on shelves And in cases – These are our cases And we love them as we love ourselves
 Museums as mass graves Mass graves as museums Kiss me in my mausoleum Priests and prisoners Prostitutes and prophets Pioneers and pilgrims and pagans
 This is our time – And we are dispensing it in spendthrift increments Buying threadbare bandages for our cavernous canyons Buying ample earplugs To seal in the silence So we can somewhat say “look there is peace – Look we have done it In our time it is accomplished” – 
 This is our peace – And we know it by the signs The lions and lambs lay quietly together In our brass-barred zoos For as long as shelves and cases Are intact and the first are first And the last are last And the civilized are organized and holy There is peace – Oh, look We made peace! And as for Solomon and Socrates – We take their words to weave through our new wisdom And when we re-chart the constellations We shall give them each a star And salute them once a year When they come around the universe Oh, look How wise we are! Mass graves as art Art as mass graves There have been no better days There has been no greater time Politicians and pornographers Professors and pirates Psychologists and pastors and pianists
 This is our time – And we are doing with it the very best we know how The last are toiling and trying And the first are trying to think to try – But there is a shortness in our hours And a violence in our peace There is inherent foolishness in our wisdom And disease in our cities And there is death upon our shelves and in our cases. This is our world – We crafted it and declared our truth to be true We sculpted this, our colosseum Please inscribe my mausoleum With “we know not what we do”
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Years later Bathsheba's psychiatrist Was analysing the tryst Between King David And her. It was no tryst Said she. What a slur. He was a ****** And an opportunist. An amoeba would concur Said the psychiatrist That a shower screen And being more demure Would have been Quite spiritually enterprising. You cannot expect Kind David to desist From objectifying your femurs And a cracking pair of amethysts. Don't treat me Like some calculating Hormone Exchange Unit You sexist misogynist. You are not fit To analyse me. You say your name's Freud But you're wholly devoid Of any insight Of what is amiss Or my troubles might be. Not one piece of grit Have you put in my oyster. You obsequious churl I'm a girl you don't mess with. I could have you hung. But instead she dismissed him and booked an appointment With a certain professor Who went by the name of Carl Gustav Jung.
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May 23, 2014
May 23, 2014 at 11:27 AM UTC
Bathsheba's Psychiatrists
jesse and i used to play games of fairies as children. i still have the drawing book which we gathered "facts" from. her crazy neighbor (with basically ten siblings.Mormons) played the games with us, but she too lived them. we put out "food" for them, ran from evil spirits, used powers to fuel the plot, ran through the trees and down hills, and used leaves, sticks, the weather, and even sounds in the wind to move the story. we grew to dismiss it as child's play (though i can't speak for the girl), but it was real. it was as real as anything, and affected us more than all else. our childhood was a fairy-tale it just didn't get a "happily ever after" in cursive at the bottom of the page. it was magic all the same.
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Apr 4, 2015
Apr 4, 2015 at 2:49 AM UTC
Fairies in the Psychiatrists Office
Help me the drugs don't work my father touches me I am too fat powerless I incise my anorexic hunger with a martyr's red razor rewarding myself with a dopamine high mixed with pity and disgust so I can hide in the up and down never know my real reasons project my sadness onto others and take pills from psychiatrists who themselves believe the shallow island of chemicals is the solution and who work only to keep you sick when the sun is shining but you cannot see it because your frontal cortex says the sun is not shining when in fact it is.
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Dec 23, 2011
Dec 23, 2011 at 9:51 AM UTC
Why drugs don't work
A poem a day, Keeps the psychiatrists away.
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May 27, 2019
May 27, 2019 at 7:31 AM UTC
Poems.
Well Annie now you've done it through your gyrations,  characterizations imitations a spot of light of spirit flipped out into the ether like some kind of spiritual dandruff all crystal prisms twinkling stars shook off of you and floated through my eyes and ears and penetrated and infused my pumping heart through my circulatory system snapping synaptic changes, touching those places of dreams and trances. Well Annie now you've done it all night long with images of Olive Oil and no Popeye I have become a sailor man unmoored from the safety of the slip dragging the anchor until the tether breaks and find myself floating on some Jungian sea of the unconscious far away from the shore. Well Annie now you've really done it - How will this all play out when walking down the faux marble hallways as I roll up one wave of imitation and down another in clients/secretaries/billing clerks deranged psychiatrists stories and all of this reality grabbing trying ranting riffing how is this all going to play out when strange guerilla theatre erupts on backwards in administrators offices and leadership committee meetings when I spread my  legs as my grand opening in carrot top hangings and turn to clients offer them too this spirit spark of courage. Well you've really done it this time Annie when my door is locked and pagers are begging for my attention but I will be in the room at that desk throwing rules, regulations and my professional reputation to the current winds of unwinding truths and soulful stories. When they turn to me and ask for my forgiveness in their true confession or when I shift shapes to the big onion when everyone who wanders near weeps when they ask me for that magic sentence to make it all okay or write a treatment plan or just a hand on the shoulder; as they begin to talk like rooms of old echoes- I will tell them that will cost them extra. You've done it now Annie forever in my minute little world rocked the boat that spirit like the butterfly wings causing the hurricane of courage. You've done it now Olive Oil Annie I have found my spinach and freedom cannot be far behind...
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Jan 28, 2014
Jan 28, 2014 at 1:18 AM UTC
Well Annie Now You've Done It
Well Annie now you've done it through your gyrations,  characterizations imitations a spot of light of spirit flipped out into the ether like some kind of spiritual dandruff all crystal prisms twinkling stars shook off of you and floated through my eyes and ears and penetrated and infused my pumping heart through my circulatory system snapping synaptic changes, touching those places of dreams and trances. Well Annie now you've done it all night long with images of Olive Oil and no Popeye I have become a sailor man unmoored from the safety of the slip dragging the anchor until the tether breaks and find myself floating on some Jungian sea of the unconscious far away from the shore. Well Annie now you've really done it - How will this all play out when walking down the faux marble hallways as I roll up one wave of imitation and down another in clients/secretaries/billing clerks deranged psychiatrists stories and all of this reality grabbing trying ranting riffing how is this all going to play out when strange guerilla theatre erupts on backwards in administrators offices and leadership committee meetings when I spread my  legs as my grand opening in carrot top hangings and turn to clients offer them too this spirit spark of courage. Well you've really done it this time Annie when my door is locked and pagers are begging for my attention but I will be in the room at that desk throwing rules, regulations and my professional reputation to the current winds of unwinding truths and soulful stories. When they turn to me and ask for my forgiveness in their true confession or when I shift shapes to the big onion when everyone who wanders near weeps when they ask me for that magic sentence to make it all okay or write a treatment plan or just a hand on the shoulder; as they begin to talk like rooms of old echoes- I will tell them that will cost them extra. You've done it now Annie forever in my minute little world rocked the boat that spirit like the butterfly wings causing the hurricane of courage. You've done it now Olive Oil Annie I have found my spinach and freedom cannot be far behind...
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Aliens     They have no notion of past or present,     everything is about oceans.     When they ask for you     it is really a story about seeing the ocean.     VISITOR #1:     Listen. It is failure of bridges that builds angels.     GROCERY BAGGER/ COLLEGE STUDENT:     Is this the depression     we've all been experiencing?     VISITOR #4:     Please have a seat and forget the edge of that coast,     you were not intended for this distance.     GROCERY BAGGER/ COLLEGE STUDENT:     I believe we're all owed an explanation.     Where is this manifest?     I've never ridden a horse, I am being dreamed about.     VISITOR #1:     You would not believe     the stories redwoods have.     You each get one phone call.     GROCERY BAGGER/ COLLEGE STUDENT:     But the voicemail I've been trying to reach,     all morning,     is full.     "I dream of psychiatrists telling stories     about dreaming of women     they've seen in unedited videos on the internet.     Sometimes they save her from that burning nightclub."     VISITOR #2:     If you're going, leave your voice     somewhere in a room I know.     COLLEGE STUDENT:     We would have no need for phones if you didn't invent distance.     VISITOR #2:     There are trees that become stained with a purple blossom.     During summer the blossoms fall and shadow around the trunk     like a violet negative.     What a beautiful dimension that must be.     They pull her skirt down to examine the body,     palms pour from a sidewalk in L.A.,     everything is cracked-     "My god she's beautiful, huh?"     I think I met them before,     a long time ago.     THE MEMORY OF A VISITOR APPEARING IN A DREAM:     What happens next? Come the exit of electricity from the body;     on a long enough time-line all weather radicalizes and the people     will grow into trees.     You can read about that hollowness and never be prepared for it.     It’s like standing on the edge of an overpass,     and being completely empty of the urge to jump.     This is what I remember:     instructed to reenact creation     she throws clothes     from an open window above the 60 freeway.       "You have to imagine there are people,     surrounding you and talking"
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Apr 28, 2016
Apr 28, 2016 at 10:29 AM UTC
Aliens by "Jamie Garcia"
Aliens     They have no notion of past or present,     everything is about oceans.     When they ask for you     it is really a story about seeing the ocean.     VISITOR #1:     Listen. It is failure of bridges that builds angels.     GROCERY BAGGER/ COLLEGE STUDENT:     Is this the depression     we've all been experiencing?     VISITOR #4:     Please have a seat and forget the edge of that coast,     you were not intended for this distance.     GROCERY BAGGER/ COLLEGE STUDENT:     I believe we're all owed an explanation.     Where is this manifest?     I've never ridden a horse, I am being dreamed about.     VISITOR #1:     You would not believe     the stories redwoods have.     You each get one phone call.     GROCERY BAGGER/ COLLEGE STUDENT:     But the voicemail I've been trying to reach,     all morning,     is full.     "I dream of psychiatrists telling stories     about dreaming of women     they've seen in unedited videos on the internet.     Sometimes they save her from that burning nightclub."     VISITOR #2:     If you're going, leave your voice     somewhere in a room I know.     COLLEGE STUDENT:     We would have no need for phones if you didn't invent distance.     VISITOR #2:     There are trees that become stained with a purple blossom.     During summer the blossoms fall and shadow around the trunk     like a violet negative.     What a beautiful dimension that must be.     They pull her skirt down to examine the body,     palms pour from a sidewalk in L.A.,     everything is cracked-     "My god she's beautiful, huh?"     I think I met them before,     a long time ago.     THE MEMORY OF A VISITOR APPEARING IN A DREAM:     What happens next? Come the exit of electricity from the body;     on a long enough time-line all weather radicalizes and the people     will grow into trees.     You can read about that hollowness and never be prepared for it.     It’s like standing on the edge of an overpass,     and being completely empty of the urge to jump.     This is what I remember:     instructed to reenact creation     she throws clothes     from an open window above the 60 freeway.       "You have to imagine there are people,     surrounding you and talking"
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Don't look now I'm fading away Into the gray of my mornings Or the blues of every night Is it that my nails keep breaking Or maybe the corn on my secind little piggy Things keep popping out on my face or of my life It seems no matter how I try I become more difficult to hold I am not an easy woman to want They have asked the psychiatrists . . . psychologists . . . politicians and social workers What this decade will be known for There is no doubt . . . it is loneliness
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May 17, 2013
May 17, 2013 at 1:08 PM UTC
Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day
do we have a telepathic relationship our waking minds know nothing of do we commune in the deep of out of reach calmly knowing all that's thought well before anything is said or are we showing off just bending spoons sitting in the psychiatrists waiting room.
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May 5, 2017
May 5, 2017 at 11:31 AM UTC
poets psychosis and bending spoons
What if  we had roots deep down to the centre of luck – wouldn’t we be laughing about rain and tears and wouldn’t we keep growing if we embroidered our thoughts with roots and luck. What if the fruit at the end of the twig was happiness, without a question mark. Wouldn’t we chuckle about the empty space in our mind? How could we stop? What if, instead of connecting dots we overdrew parentheses and footnotes with smileys and flowers and purring cats; What if science and pain only existed as cuddly monsters with toothache in children's books; What if we found a rabbit’s hole leading us into a world where psychiatrists and gurus were nervous patients in big waiting halls without flushing toilets. Wouldn’t we be neurotically smiling? What if we didn’t call ourselves falling leaves, but started feeling eons of love upon our wrinkles. Wouldn’t death then simply be a slight breeze releasing the heat at the end of a wonderful day? What if our hearts went on, free of age and weight, circulating kindred songs beyond fixed identities. What if I was wrong and every conditional was closer to experience than arguments and miracles – My dear: I unlocked the universal laughter; I turned sadness into luminous gardens, into a slow waltz to hear the non-dancers saying: Cheers! Cheers! Cheers!   What if we finally found the recipe for equilibrium: Would we still be needing stock markets and currencies? Or could we simply exchange syllables across languages without losing the message of oneness. What if we really had roots deep down to the centre of luck? Yes. Roots and luck.
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May 4, 2013
May 4, 2013 at 3:28 AM UTC
Roots and luck.
What if  we had roots deep down to the centre of luck – wouldn’t we be laughing about rain and tears and wouldn’t we keep growing if we embroidered our thoughts with roots and luck. What if the fruit at the end of the twig was happiness, without a question mark. Wouldn’t we chuckle about the empty space in our mind? How could we stop? What if, instead of connecting dots we overdrew parentheses and footnotes with smileys and flowers and purring cats; What if science and pain only existed as cuddly monsters with toothache in children's books; What if we found a rabbit’s hole leading us into a world where psychiatrists and gurus were nervous patients in big waiting halls without flushing toilets. Wouldn’t we be neurotically smiling? What if we didn’t call ourselves falling leaves, but started feeling eons of love upon our wrinkles. Wouldn’t death then simply be a slight breeze releasing the heat at the end of a wonderful day? What if our hearts went on, free of age and weight, circulating kindred songs beyond fixed identities. What if I was wrong and every conditional was closer to experience than arguments and miracles – My dear: I unlocked the universal laughter; I turned sadness into luminous gardens, into a slow waltz to hear the non-dancers saying: Cheers! Cheers! Cheers!   What if we finally found the recipe for equilibrium: Would we still be needing stock markets and currencies? Or could we simply exchange syllables across languages without losing the message of oneness. What if we really had roots deep down to the centre of luck? Yes. Roots and luck.
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I walked into Walgreen’s that night absorbed in my own little world. Soon after entering, I made my way to the line. My eyes d a n c e d to the crescent-moon shaped scar adorning the young clerk’s neck. With the gentleman in front of me, he spoke of camouflage and machine guns. Earlier times when he could only see his family through the lens of a webcam. When he first learned what it took to be a man. And when he learned what true loss really felt like. It’s my turn. I step f o r w ard and stare directly into his eyes and wonder how he ended up here. His face doesn’t give away much, he’s painted on a cordial smile and the air between us seeps with the remnants of small talk. But I can’t help wondering. I wonder, if he knows he’s more than he’s been told. more than he’s settled for. more than the orders he was commanded to obey. more than the lines he was expected to cross. more than the monster he had to become. To survive. I can’t help but wonder how he’s ended up here. Overseas— he’s ranked but now that he’s home on friendly soil, he’s thrown into department store positions and temporary jobs. I can only hope he’s better off than some of his friends tossed into psychiatrists offices. But I wonder, I wonder what memories might decide to plague his dreams. While he tries to figure out which pill alleviates which painful recollection. Which part of his past will come back to haunt him today and which of his friends lives will flash before his eyes while he tries to sleep. Norepinephrine firing through his brain like the gunshots he had to deliver. The U.S government is so quick to draft, but hasn’t learned how to welcome home. They hide their veterans in the dark corners of psych wards, allow them to get lost in the depths of their own minds, while the PTSD eats away whatever is left. These men fight for countries who don’t know what to do with them afterwards. What they both need to learn: There is life after war.
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Jan 27, 2013
Jan 27, 2013 at 4:21 PM UTC
(An Attempt) to welcome home.
I walked into Walgreen’s that night absorbed in my own little world. Soon after entering, I made my way to the line. My eyes d a n c e d to the crescent-moon shaped scar adorning the young clerk’s neck. With the gentleman in front of me, he spoke of camouflage and machine guns. Earlier times when he could only see his family through the lens of a webcam. When he first learned what it took to be a man. And when he learned what true loss really felt like. It’s my turn. I step f o r w ard and stare directly into his eyes and wonder how he ended up here. His face doesn’t give away much, he’s painted on a cordial smile and the air between us seeps with the remnants of small talk. But I can’t help wondering. I wonder, if he knows he’s more than he’s been told. more than he’s settled for. more than the orders he was commanded to obey. more than the lines he was expected to cross. more than the monster he had to become. To survive. I can’t help but wonder how he’s ended up here. Overseas— he’s ranked but now that he’s home on friendly soil, he’s thrown into department store positions and temporary jobs. I can only hope he’s better off than some of his friends tossed into psychiatrists offices. But I wonder, I wonder what memories might decide to plague his dreams. While he tries to figure out which pill alleviates which painful recollection. Which part of his past will come back to haunt him today and which of his friends lives will flash before his eyes while he tries to sleep. Norepinephrine firing through his brain like the gunshots he had to deliver. The U.S government is so quick to draft, but hasn’t learned how to welcome home. They hide their veterans in the dark corners of psych wards, allow them to get lost in the depths of their own minds, while the PTSD eats away whatever is left. These men fight for countries who don’t know what to do with them afterwards. What they both need to learn: There is life after war.
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When I was really suffering and I mean really suffering I was lying in bed like Brian Wilson watching Pat ******* Robertson and the ******* PTL Club asking for help from Jesus and God and Buddha and Dharma and Sangha and Shiva and every other ******* god or whatever there was or is and they all just made things worse so do you know what got me through it all no, it wasn't the psychiatrists or mom or dad or brother or sister or friends or any of the above all I had to get me through this ******* torture was cigarettes yes my holy smokes and now tobacco is an endangered species but I'm ready with my pipe and a lifetime supply of tobacco so bring on the cigarette enemies because I think I'll have a smoke - Ahhh.
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Jan 27, 2012
Jan 27, 2012 at 7:40 PM UTC
Holy Smokes!
since i turned into a nocturnal creature i’ve changed a bit, i started the theological arithmetic: (right hand) thumb, index, middle finger(s) - january february march, ring, pinky & pinky (left hand) - april may june, ring middle index (left hand) july august september - thumb (left hand) thumb and index (right hand)... of yes, intelligent design... now make a hole using your thumb & index finger, then ensure your thumb goes in & out from that whole... like god, say: oh **** i forgot the piston! guess what’s the slang term for a russian in polish? kacap. guess what’s the slang term for a german in polish? szwab (shvab) / i know, i too wish it was sax...aphone. guess what’s the slang term for a dwarf in polish? karakan. but i said, there are really two branches from the 20th century growing into the 21st century, there’s the proustian branch that’s a cul de sac... and there’s the joycean branch, that leads to ezra pound et al., finnegans wake (which i have read) i can a 50p with an invention of a terminology: uncoded phoneticism, i.e. alpha bravo charlie delta echo, only because: prirates’ aye, eye and lie and high sounded pretty much the same even though they were spelled differently. uncoded phoneticism means you use a coding of language from thought / silence in a way that elevates it from the standard usage, from novelty interests of a righteous narrator crafting new characters... of course your writing will appear chaotic... but in reality it will not be... trust me... i simulated paranoid schizophrenia for seven years... fooled three psychiatrists and regained a chance to provoke. nicholas ii is smiling at me from a banknote i own, and i have a kopek’s worth of currency from dostoyevsky’s times.
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Dec 4, 2015
Dec 4, 2015 at 7:52 PM UTC
a russian in polish slang? kacap
since i turned into a nocturnal creature i’ve changed a bit, i started the theological arithmetic: (right hand) thumb, index, middle finger(s) - january february march, ring, pinky & pinky (left hand) - april may june, ring middle index (left hand) july august september - thumb (left hand) thumb and index (right hand)... of yes, intelligent design... now make a hole using your thumb & index finger, then ensure your thumb goes in & out from that whole... like god, say: oh **** i forgot the piston! guess what’s the slang term for a russian in polish? kacap. guess what’s the slang term for a german in polish? szwab (shvab) / i know, i too wish it was sax...aphone. guess what’s the slang term for a dwarf in polish? karakan. but i said, there are really two branches from the 20th century growing into the 21st century, there’s the proustian branch that’s a cul de sac... and there’s the joycean branch, that leads to ezra pound et al., finnegans wake (which i have read) i can a 50p with an invention of a terminology: uncoded phoneticism, i.e. alpha bravo charlie delta echo, only because: prirates’ aye, eye and lie and high sounded pretty much the same even though they were spelled differently. uncoded phoneticism means you use a coding of language from thought / silence in a way that elevates it from the standard usage, from novelty interests of a righteous narrator crafting new characters... of course your writing will appear chaotic... but in reality it will not be... trust me... i simulated paranoid schizophrenia for seven years... fooled three psychiatrists and regained a chance to provoke. nicholas ii is smiling at me from a banknote i own, and i have a kopek’s worth of currency from dostoyevsky’s times.
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I woke up today, realizing that if I hadn't gone to psychiatrists, and studied religion, and worked hard for many years at Zen, that I probably would have been one of those guys who gets a gun and shoots a lot of people and then turns it on himself and blows his brains out, because I think that I have lived a hundred lifetimes before this one as a victim of torture and therefore was pushed to the limit, but instead of becoming a suicidal psycho-murderer, I became some sort of love, peace and happiness Bodhisattva, so instead of criticizing Zen and psychiatry, like I usually do, I'm praising them.
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Aug 11, 2012
Aug 11, 2012 at 8:42 AM UTC
Testimonial
I was born with wounds in my head they tell me I’ll be better and they give me pills but oh, nothing takes you out of me for you are stitched into my soul like disease. Sometimes I want to hide in my mother’s womb and build a fortress of all the tears we’ve cried you and I so there's a bed and there’s our bodies intertwined like homes that swallow the skies and dance under the pouring rain and during hurricanes there’s a body and there’s another there’s a pill and there’s the other and there’s my dry mouth begging for a drizzle, from your soul, boy. **** medications.
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Apr 15, 2016
Apr 15, 2016 at 6:49 PM UTC
psychiatrists
~ This whole depression thing Is getting really old Every day feels the same Just another 24hr. time bomb Tick-Tick-Ticking in my brain Guilt; Guilt for things I can't control For being me And not feeling whole-ly there No one knows I don't want them to I can't be monitored For everything I do That's no way to live I'm not harmful To myself or others Isn't that what most matters? No one cares if I'm unhappy So long as I'm not a threat They'll throw pills down my throat Call me good; Or good enough Send me on my way Piece of paper in my hand With drugs that only they understand I'm not really living But at least I'm not dead So bring it on The Tick-Tick-Ticking of my bomb Never going to explode Just there to keep me in control So I'm not a "burden" on this world. ~S.A.~
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Aug 3, 2011
Aug 3, 2011 at 9:56 AM UTC
Psychiatrists Rule The World
At the fountain by Nelson’s Column you met Julie in mini skirt and bright red top her hair hugged into a ponytail a copy of Sgt Pepper’s under her arm you in jeans and open necked shirt came across to her standing there looking into the fountain’s water sorry I’m late you said missed my train no problem she said bought my own Beatles' LP and she held it out to you friends say it's neat and way out she added as you scanned the sleeve where we going? you asked drink I must have a drink she said how’s things at the hospital? usual stuff: treatment drugs to get me off drugs therapy psychiatrists nurses and so on you? she asked I’m ok you said ok is crap ok is boring is mediocre life either ***** or it’s exciting and over the top she said the Square was crowded people and pigeons and water and sun and sky and mixture of perfumes and bus fumes let’s get that drink she said and so you went off to a bar off Trafalgar Square and ordered two drinks and sat outside in the sunshine I think the fat nurse on my ward suspects us she said suspects what? you asked you and me and that small room o that you said she took out a cigarette pack and took out two cigarettes and gave one to you and lit them both think she’s jealous or envious Julie said smiling free love makes some women angry Schopenhauer said somewhere that wives and ****** despise women who give *** away free it undermines their contracts how’s Jamie? you asked still locked up she said they claim he was supplying but he wasn’t they ******* him up she inhaled and searched your eyes you still playing your saxophone? yes you said I practice everyday annoys the neighbours sometimes but got to keep up with it and hone the skills she sat legs crossed her thighs exposed her footwear bright her fingers holding the cigarette the lips red her eyes like small mirrors small **** pressed against the red top the memory of that small room off the ward she and you and brooms and boxes and such and kisses and *** and on edge for the door to open but not overmuch.
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May 11, 2013
May 11, 2013 at 3:33 AM UTC
MEETING BY NELSON'S COLUMN.
At the fountain by Nelson’s Column you met Julie in mini skirt and bright red top her hair hugged into a ponytail a copy of Sgt Pepper’s under her arm you in jeans and open necked shirt came across to her standing there looking into the fountain’s water sorry I’m late you said missed my train no problem she said bought my own Beatles' LP and she held it out to you friends say it's neat and way out she added as you scanned the sleeve where we going? you asked drink I must have a drink she said how’s things at the hospital? usual stuff: treatment drugs to get me off drugs therapy psychiatrists nurses and so on you? she asked I’m ok you said ok is crap ok is boring is mediocre life either ***** or it’s exciting and over the top she said the Square was crowded people and pigeons and water and sun and sky and mixture of perfumes and bus fumes let’s get that drink she said and so you went off to a bar off Trafalgar Square and ordered two drinks and sat outside in the sunshine I think the fat nurse on my ward suspects us she said suspects what? you asked you and me and that small room o that you said she took out a cigarette pack and took out two cigarettes and gave one to you and lit them both think she’s jealous or envious Julie said smiling free love makes some women angry Schopenhauer said somewhere that wives and ****** despise women who give *** away free it undermines their contracts how’s Jamie? you asked still locked up she said they claim he was supplying but he wasn’t they ******* him up she inhaled and searched your eyes you still playing your saxophone? yes you said I practice everyday annoys the neighbours sometimes but got to keep up with it and hone the skills she sat legs crossed her thighs exposed her footwear bright her fingers holding the cigarette the lips red her eyes like small mirrors small **** pressed against the red top the memory of that small room off the ward she and you and brooms and boxes and such and kisses and *** and on edge for the door to open but not overmuch.
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By Arcassin Burnham Sectioning out the number of loses in my History from exs to family, There's a thing called holy Trinity, Hope my life will get better soon from all the Healing, If there was a chance, Id take it, I'm ready and willing, I usually stay out of problems that my neighborhood Portrays, Got a bundle full of fake friends that simply know My name, Had to hold on to the memories of prices I paid, But after awhile I got tired and just perished away, Now that I'm operation ghost I can not speak to anyone, Stay inside everyday and paranoia is really fun, Sarcasm is one of the things I picked up from this Experience, I'm changing all of my appearances to something More conspicuous, This is getting more and more ridiculous, And I just keep fighting this anxiety while I stay Anonymous, Staying hidden from the world, no more psychiatrists, You think I'm missing sanity well I'm not missing this, I just hope I'm in the clear.
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Jul 1, 2016
Jul 1, 2016 at 6:31 AM UTC
In The Clear
I'm sick I'm sick of it all The doctors Counsellors Psychologists Psychiatrists Medication And I'm sick I'm sick of me
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Jul 9, 2014
Jul 9, 2014 at 4:45 PM UTC
I am sick
Dean Roberts had two homes One was in port Adelaide and the other was in rhw Adelaide hills and he lived in the adelaide hills but he had paranoid mates living 3 doors down from his Port Adelaide home You see there were squatters living there making everyone living around there scared to leave their homes and this usually happened every night from 4pm till dawn and then it appeared to be early but nobody went near the hooise except for dean Roberts who was hermless but the residents Of the nearby homes barocsded themselves in their homes and there were psychiatrists around for anyone who becomes too scared to cross the main road and making sure no vunerable person was struggling getting to where they wanted to go or where they lived and dean Roberts was unaware of all this because there was no sign of people living there and dean's best friend Toni was the target in some way, you see she lived in the house opposite that house And she called the police numerous times which forced cars to follow her making her look very scared but she still wanted to help the police remove them so she used herself as bait to catch them But this was easy for them but Toni was in danger of losing her life making her scream so loud But while Toni was with them dean was trapped inside his port Adelaide home but he broke the window and iinstead of going home to the hills he slept in his car waiting for the Squatters to come back and When they did dean grabbed a broom and came in there saying come on get out of my house and then while that was going on Toni was panicking crossing the road making it half way across and then going back especially after they took her from her place of work and dumped her at the lights making her scared to hold someone even the police Cause she watches the news where people dress up as police to take advantage of ladies like Toni and after dean got rid of the squatters for bow He drove home with people yelling out to him hi mr hero With people bipping their horn Saying you are port Adelaide's Hero but Toni was still struggling to get home and this forced the police to grab her and take her home To take her medication and go to bed and one of the squatters returned and was caught and shoved in Ron coopers psych ward where he was put on eppelim and he was forced to one day tell them why he lived in dean Roberts property and squatter said his name was ken Psrtley and Ron gave ken an injection of abilify to calm Him down and Ron went back home and had pizza and coke While ken was stuck in a Place he hated and Toni was still paranoid about crossing that road and dean helped her get through this like a friend would
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Dec 1, 2016
Dec 1, 2016 at 6:10 PM UTC
my seroquel dream in ****** town
Dean Roberts had two homes One was in port Adelaide and the other was in rhw Adelaide hills and he lived in the adelaide hills but he had paranoid mates living 3 doors down from his Port Adelaide home You see there were squatters living there making everyone living around there scared to leave their homes and this usually happened every night from 4pm till dawn and then it appeared to be early but nobody went near the hooise except for dean Roberts who was hermless but the residents Of the nearby homes barocsded themselves in their homes and there were psychiatrists around for anyone who becomes too scared to cross the main road and making sure no vunerable person was struggling getting to where they wanted to go or where they lived and dean Roberts was unaware of all this because there was no sign of people living there and dean's best friend Toni was the target in some way, you see she lived in the house opposite that house And she called the police numerous times which forced cars to follow her making her look very scared but she still wanted to help the police remove them so she used herself as bait to catch them But this was easy for them but Toni was in danger of losing her life making her scream so loud But while Toni was with them dean was trapped inside his port Adelaide home but he broke the window and iinstead of going home to the hills he slept in his car waiting for the Squatters to come back and When they did dean grabbed a broom and came in there saying come on get out of my house and then while that was going on Toni was panicking crossing the road making it half way across and then going back especially after they took her from her place of work and dumped her at the lights making her scared to hold someone even the police Cause she watches the news where people dress up as police to take advantage of ladies like Toni and after dean got rid of the squatters for bow He drove home with people yelling out to him hi mr hero With people bipping their horn Saying you are port Adelaide's Hero but Toni was still struggling to get home and this forced the police to grab her and take her home To take her medication and go to bed and one of the squatters returned and was caught and shoved in Ron coopers psych ward where he was put on eppelim and he was forced to one day tell them why he lived in dean Roberts property and squatter said his name was ken Psrtley and Ron gave ken an injection of abilify to calm Him down and Ron went back home and had pizza and coke While ken was stuck in a Place he hated and Toni was still paranoid about crossing that road and dean helped her get through this like a friend would
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