EN-DARKEN
EN-DARKENMENT
Radio blares: Fire in Russia today
at a remote Psychiatric hospital The
dead are 26-76 yrs. old many drugged
Firefighters couldn’t get to them Ferry
not running Many died trying to climb out
windows windows barred
Fires smoke ferryboats screaming running
burning flesh Sounds like a trip on the River Styx
How many had visions like these ? Where the
visions became the psychosis they were sedated
for Precognition can be a mental health condition
All reminiscent of The White Hotel* – A patient of
Freud’s has visions of a bloody siege & a bayonet
wound near the heart She ended up in a ravine at Babi Yar
Have my child clients dreamed their torments
envisioned their dungeons ? Some certainly
Once in a dream a crumpled old man said to me:
Savior Complex eh ? I wonder if perhaps I am not
saving them but it is they who are saving me
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*The White Hotel D.M. Thomas depicts scenes from Babi Yar a ravine in Kiev and the site of a series of massacres by the Nazis . The most notorious took place on September 29–30, 1941, when 33,771 Jews were killed in a single operation.
Spring 2013
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