TO CLARA BARTON ; or, why nurses should be tested for psychopathy

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                   - hey Psych nurse,

Ask me how you can threaten me with

medicine with egregious consequences to 

my brain function in normativity, something

I'm already lacking, not to mention the

Fact that I'm here in the first place 

Because I keep messing my pills up --

I can't even be trusted with a pill bottle 

With the time automatically correct so

I cannot possibly forget if it was 5 am or pm

the following evening - ask me why THAT -

That B-52 Bomber drug wunderpill is

Better than taking 10 seconds off your screen

to DO YOUR JOB AS A PSYCH NURSE!

to 

--listen to a patient disclose a self-harm ideation.--


I thought I was supposed to tell you 

when I had an issue, why are you now

Threatening warfare on my already fragile biosystem?


I was trying to rid my chest of the burden,

this whole time we've been learning how to ease 

some of our Burdens. And yet? 

You drug me?



Et tu, Clara Barton?

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