Allgemeine Psychopathologie

By
Naomi Bartlett
|
March 20, 2016

One time Shel Silverstien’s best friend told me to f--- off.

That’s what I really love about the air here; it bites hard.

When I said that I loved the way that you danced

I almost got kicked out of the SAT testing room.

One time the KGB told me in no uncertain terms

That I better watch my back. Later that day

I found a camera in the moon, hidden

With certainty, with incorrigibility, & with total impossibility.

One time I saw someone doing cartwheels

In the middle of the highway at rush hour.

We drove right through him & when I looked back

I was reminded irrevocably of the heritability of original sin.

Madness is doing the same thing over

And over and expecting different results.

I guess Narcotics Anonymous and Rita Mae Brown never googled

“schizophrenia test online free” at 4 in the morning.