Places I Remember

1.

In the mental ward
they told me to shit
at 7:30 a.m.  I couldn't
so someone wrote on my
chart:  R.P.C. could
not shit, could not
find his sex organs,
could not use them
when found, seemed
confused, needs more
group therapy.

2.

When I tried to embrace
the R.N. I was told that
it was the conclusion of
a sexual fantasy or perhaps
a latent period I was going
through:

3.

see it, do you see
it, the laughter,
the fun, the hum of
varying opinions?  So
I read Laing and all
those nuts and I found
that that is that  with
a huge apology.