SWEET OLD WORLD
SEE WHAT YOU LOST WHEN YOU LEFT
THIS WORLD THIS SWEET OLD WORLD
Dr. Hazen Gandy child psychiatrist said: Commonly
it’s cutting for the 12-17’s slashing arms thighs bellies
with razor blades Gives the body a whole different set
of inputs Allows them not to feel so awful inside & we’re
seeing 10x more kids than 10 yrs. ago
This world is taking no prisoners Yesterday Mick’s
girlfriend was found with a scarf around her neck kneeling
Mick’s skin looked so thin you could see the frayed edges of
his soul
Dr. Gandy went on to say: Greater numbers of mental health
professionals are on the verge themselves
The blind leading There is a global existential crisis:
I am empty
I don’t know who I am
I don’t know where I am going
The Mother home at lunchtime glasses of milk cookies
& Gilligan Your dog hiding in the same closet for 13 yrs.
Ready or not here I come Same house same school In an
I know who I am kind of world
The children I have known in the temenos: cigarette burns
elective mutes scaldings & worse incontinent at 10
Where’s my dog & the Dad?
Trillions of dollars are being spent on the BICEP2 experiment
What was the Universe like at less than one second old?
Isn’t this just another form of the existential crisis?
We are empty We don’t know who we are We have no compass
It remains difficult to know what even one trillion dollars could
do for those in the mental health trenches They might be able to
construct a safety net one that stretches from the South Pole
(site of BICEP2 tests) to Nunavut Across the Straights and
around the globe Maybe even teach our police de-escalation
techniques?
Another pundit Dr. Kathleen Pajer Chief Psychiatrist in Halifax
will have the final word: Most of these kids don’t have a diagnosis
Leaving doctors mystified
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Looking for some truth dancing with no shoes
The beat the rhythm the blues The pounding of
your heart’s drum together with another one
Didn’t you think anyone loved you See what you
lost when you left this world this sweet old world
(Lucinda Williams)
SPRING 2014
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