Diagnosis

My illness is recurrent mania,
 not in DSM or the ICD,
 it has to be within the book, you see,
I always seem to see utopia.
Whilst you struggle with your dystopia
 what, perhaps, we’ll best call reality,
 I soon lose touch with mine and get happy
what the doctor may call euphoria.
  The outlook doesn’t look too fine just now
  that doesn’t mean you must be low in mood
   (I know this hospital outside of Slough!)
   but understand my laughter is not rude.
    I laugh at this mad world; it laughs at me.
    And I laugh back despite eternity.