The World We Live In by Alex Klein

Disruptive
Changing the flow
Yell too loud
They’ll alert the popo
Corrective action
For voicing your needs
No body listens
When you’re a mental disease
Get out please stop that
We don’t know what to do when you
Voice like that

PTP a legalese paper
Enforcing the disease
There’s one solution
Please don’t flee
Medication administration
Compliant to the T
Don’t make a mockery
A judge signed this disorder
There’s a team in place
Don’t drink, don’t drug,
Especially don’t give her
A hug
What a mug
To drink along with tobacco
Everything in this world
Impacts your clozaril level
Disrupt the pills to be free
There’s no running
Your under the care
Of the team
OBH
How can we support the human race
We’ve got advisory groups
To say we are a safe space
Compliance disrupts those that try to hide it
How dare you sway from our grip
Try and make your own way
Independent from your recidivist stay
Eat the hay stay stable and no one can
Argue your way
The chains of the system have you
Taped up and unable to
Read a fable, that might
Courageous stories
Can do just that
Save your life
From the strife
You though that you had to fight
I wish I may I wish I might
My porridge is just right
Starry night, ears off
Intuition out of sight
Grind me like a gear
I hear aight
Eyes open
Hopin’ for acceptance
Just jesting knowing
The cosmos breathed us
Turtles head piercing
A floating yolk in the
Ocean
Water in motion
Disrupting those who
Repressed us
We’re the ones in the dream
All you saw was a seed
Millions of color beads
Rainbow, technicolor
Letting go of greed
A kalpa later
It’s another seed
Get out I know you can
Disrupt escape the worldly needs
Impede the restrictions
Grandmother says
Stop your conniptions
Get a grip hon
Your taunt is calling
She’s just like us
Disrupt the hippocracy
See the them in us
Make a fuss cause a commotion
We may have to do it for
The sake of the ocean

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From the author: This piece was inspired by working in a group home recently and some of the outrageous rules and regulations that everyone silently doesn’t speak up about.

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