Subhuman Schizo Sonnet by Michael Hudson

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O my crimes caused much commotion long after I was punished by the law, and I waited, hoping a sagacious shrink would boost in my cliché-ridden mind, like...

Quiet Storms by Tina Antonis

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This year, I learned to name the hurricane— Borderline, they call it. A diagnosis sharp as a scalpel cutting through the fog of what’s wrong with me? For...

An Atheist’s Prayer by Morgan Stewart

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Psychiatry is an atheist’s prayer, absolving the faithful of human desire It is miracle cures, sinners who have lost their way, and a holy book...

A Journey Through a Restaurant by Lea Harrington

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Walking through this restaurant to the restroom - always in the back, of course A gauntlet one must walk to go where one needs to go People look at me, stare, laugh at me. What...

We’re Not Settling by Jeffrey Powell

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when they’re arresting, stifling, tranquilizing not standing for our backfire what’s really wrong - can they answer that why can’t they promise not to mire At first we...

Head on a Stick by Jennifer Chapman

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I feel a push and pull inside of me, Deep in the pit of my soul. Roots stretch to the ends of my stomach, Tangled with bones— A...

You Are A World by Tara Rae Behr

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You are a world. You are not a sign, a category, a personality, a label, a diagnosis, a spectacle, a thing to be analyzed, or figured out. Others who...

Shame by Destiny Woodward

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There is a vastness of sorrow and emptiness within me that I can’t describe. The sting of shame, the flames of regret consume me....

Psychiatry Gave Me PTSD by Nicola Clare

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Psychiatry gave me PTSD. Psychiatry gave me PTSD A silhouette now Or a hologram Wedged between sheets of sound Proof, somehow Shatter proof glass Stuck For an eternity; cast, A mad ranting lunatic! Labels...

I Needed a Guide by Mad Preschool Teacher

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Still feels like yesterday 16 alone with this unrecognized gift I can touch God I can feel everything Way too much pain though too much beauty I needed a...

The World We Live In by Alex Klein

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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...

Ode to the Path of Least Resistance by Gunnar Burton

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A legacy of water Once Imprisoned in a geological Alcatraz inert, helpless, gravity it’s only friend Became an emphatic knife carving through hard Precambrian flesh always under cover of shadow a...

Numb by ElizaM

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Dissociation feels like my head is stuffed with cotton and I can't hear right. Like trying to have a conversation under water. Muffled. Blurry. Both heavy...

Are You Ok? by Alex K.

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Are you taking your meds? Are you right in the head? Are you doing ok? Am I behind on pills today? You seem manic More like you can’t stand...

When the Lunatics Arise by Bonnie Schell

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“It is the very error of the moon. She comes more near the earth than she was wont. And makes men mad.” - Shakespeare,...

TRUE STORY by Jasmine Marshall

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i went to the gym the other day and got hit on by a man over twice my age he asked me about my...

Vacant House by Tara Rae Behr

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I never knew what it was like—-to inhabit my body. I was always inhabiting others bodies in my body since the cave opened and my heart beheld the...

Proofs by Dana Henry Martin

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Because tree stumps have replaced office chairs. Because a city of wind has replaced commercial business parks. Because infinity has been revealed as a tidy line of...
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Khepri by Michael Hudson

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O give me in a shrink the god who rolled Ra across the heavenly sky each day from dawn, making everything seem so fresh and young beneath...
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See Your Ancestors Smile by J.H.

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As we lie together Worlds apart Seek shelter With me. Weave your Stolen freedom Into a new dream; Between skipped Heartbeats, Show me A world burning Only with Your fire. My sweet sublimity, Take hold of this Outstretched hand...

And You by Douglas Westberg

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And You a glosa And you, my father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray. Do not go gentle into...

The Light Prevailed by Diana Spore

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The primary wall stood strong and tall, until she started to chisel her way through She had been told that she would never recover -- From...

King of the Hill by Virgo Phoenix

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This gnawing burning squiggle of an emotion that streams through insipidness; speaks in the space where my gut meets the churning locket of despair. Alone,...

The Parasite Within by Rhiannon Chianese

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I claw and climb into your head, Controlling your thoughts until I am fed. With a drink or a drug, I will be seized. With a drink...

Moonlight Mystery by Jason Aull

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Lively do the shadows play Within the darkened lonely way Few dare tread along the deep Where hatreds children play with sleep Rage and laughter fill the day As...