Frank Prem

Franks Psychiatry 2 #25: bathing the locked ward

twenty-five hunched
pigeon-chested little men
run naked
across the cobbled winter courtyard

 

to the bathroom
dip
dip
dip
in and out
of the peninsula bath

 

one is fecal
for him
the shower
and a stiff scrubbing brush
on a four-foot long
extended handle
to prevent splash-back
onto the nurse

 

the room is steam
and smell

 

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