Saturday, January 29, 2022

Designed to Dehumanize (2/19/2019)

Take off your shoes
your socks, your clothes
Give us your phone,
your watch 
    there's no need for you to track day or time

Here's a narrow bed
In a hall, brightly lit
Stay there.
Stay.
     there's no need for you to have privacy or control

No, your friend can't stay
sit alone
no advocate
no one to hold your hand
    there's no right to have a voice

"insane"
"crazy"
laughter at
the grown man crying
    there's no right to dignity

Whatever the signs, the papers say
The psych ER
is Designed to Dehumanize

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