Frank Prem

Franks Psychiatry 2 #32: huntington’s marionette

 

she is young
perhaps forty years old
but in with the psycho-geriatrics

 

huntington’s chorea
makes her dance
in a long slow death
that steals the mind
before it takes the body

 

she is drooling
incontinent
disgusting

 

and for the duration
of a six-week long
rostered placement
has possession
of my breaking heart

 

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