17 September 2019
The invitation with this prompt from Megan Devine’s Writing Your Grief course was to pick a page in a newspaper/magazine, and just highlight random words and from those create a poem. It’s a weird and wonderful exercise.
Struggled
Many years
Conscious shift to
Enlist help
Active critic
Madness as insight
Philosophical coincidence
Culprit suspicious
Signs of sexual activity
Mixed reviews
Inspired ideology
After a suicide attempt
An army of labour
Cheap labour
Inhabitants of the
Hospital
Becoming tainted
Poor evil fear
Failed efforts
Mad treatments
Exhausted
A better way
Scrutiny
A social problem
Acceptance
Willpower to change
A previous
Lobotomy treatment
C/o The Psychologist, September 2019
