Stuck in a mental hospital
for two and a half years
I lay in my sick bed
I will never forgive the doctors
They put me in a hole
where I grew belligerent
I stopped brushing my teeth
Only got up to watch
“Wheel Of Fortune”
The Mexican aides yelled at me
to pick up my clothes,
busted me when they found my laxatives
A janitor snuck me a candy bar
They made me swallow
all the pills: the square one,
the blue ones in a little cup
70 pounds later w/red eyes
I became the zombie they wanted me to be
The nurses behind the Plexiglas
ignored my questions
My face changed into a monster
The other patients drooled
& fell asleep all day long
I stopped fighting &
barely got out of bed
I thought I’d never get out
When I did I felt
I was still in there