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Good Morning from the Psych Ward


How are we 
feeling today? 
she asked 
with 
perfunctory 
bleached 
starched 
pressed 
smile. 

I don’t know 
about you ma’am, 
but I feel like 
a wiener: 
swept 
up 
pig 
lips 
peckers 
assholes 
oinkin’ 
sawdust 
floor 
leavin’s 
crammed 
into 
an 
artificial 
edible 
membrane. 

The obvious 
crease of smile 
leaves her face 
as she 
turns for the 
door mumbling 
invective laden 
straight to hell 
benedictions.