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...

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...

Dear Doctor (Unsent Letters) by Rose Y.

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Dear Doctor, Can we please rewind, slip back in time? To the first time that we spoke. You say you don’t remember me It’s no trouble, Let’s refresh your memory I’m...

I Will Fight for You by Atara Schimmel

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she is the one that i want the one that i love she fights for justice like a wild cat fighting for her cub fangs and claws because freedom is everything

Shattered by Alan Moster

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Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall He shattered in pieces Then trauma ensued So we called several healers Who claimed that they knew They...

Everything is Tammy by Ms. Dangerfield

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Me alive apparently - not sure. Jonah potential danger Dr. Ivorchuck is being paged. That's Shawn's voice. Dr. Oram- or him? I might have HIV so...

Antichrist Priest by David Penner

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“You are sick. You are unwell,” said the man in the white coat. “No rational person believes 9/11 was an inside job. Alas, You are a very sick man, and we are going to make you well. We can cure you. We used to burn witches, yet we’ve grown more Sophisticated in our methods. Now we leave the body intact - but not The mind. Look at what we did to Julian. No one can escape us.”

Record Keeping by Karen Adler

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And if you come to me all innocent and forlorn all regretful and torn between the rightery and the wrongery gathered in your multitudes in that field of...

A Mad Poem about Mad Poetry (by a Mad Poet)

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Verse! Wild! Let it be wild and uncontrolled! Consider not whether it passes muster In the logic-schools, Or marks time with the monotonous regularity Of clopping hooves of horses...

ptsd as a failure to punctuate by Timothy Hamilton

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a fresh blister peeled on an ant across the street stomping off in anger with no where to go looks to long familiar signs with names written the same to...
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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...

Quite Insane by Laurie Corzett

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I am quite insane, I speak in rhyme that often doesn't, expecting to find reason. I live in a world of ritual and season.

Let’s Talk by Howard Kaplan

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I'm right there with you so, let's talk, in a way. We can start by talking to the air, since you and I can’t be here or...

Broken Down Hallways by Abby Abbott

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Battered and bloody locked up locked down in your broken down hallway “where is the exit?” I ask “Its in your hand” says the nurse “the little yellow pill” “Take it...

My Veterans Benefits Were Denied Because My Military Job “Did Not Exist” And The...

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“Section 23a of your Form DD-214 lists your military occupational specialty as ‘EXP,’ the letter from the VA said. “That occupation does not exist....

I Am Not Your Pejorative Label by Rebecca Donaldson

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I wish you had tried to understand what had happened to me, but in the end, you lacked empathy. I tried to convey to you...

Jump Start by Jyl Anais

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The professionals act like the theft of half my life was no big deal because they didn't mean to.

Self-Care For Dummies by Jill M. Talbot

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Seek comfort where you can, even if it's in a dumpster Have someone explain it to you like you're a toddler Read more on ways you...

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...

Death Valley Dreaming by Laura Smith-Riva

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The wind howls across the spine of shale and abraded rock ridgelines where Sentinels stand tall in the twilight, Gods watching the story of the desert night unfold.

The Chant of the Psychiatrist by Sheldon Carruthers

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A voice echoes in my mind, I need to rehabilitate mankind, I need to contain the schizophrenic, with drugs powerful and eugenic

Unknown Restlessness by Aisha Momin

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So there is an energy surge Which is an emerge Maybe it is from the submerge ? Getting cleansed by purge That's why I had an urge But I...

I WON by Atara Schimmel

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i attended your funeral today in fact i was the one yes, won that organized it

Considering Harry by Tom Todd

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I wrote this poem using selected extracts (pages 212-217) from Prince Harry’s book, ‘Spare’, and reflecting on the extent to which his writings might...

Meditations in the Garden of Good and Evil by John-Arthur Ingram

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October 15th 3:54am Holiday Inn Express Room 321 or 123 I. I am death. I am life. I am Satan. I am God. I am predator. I am...