Franks Psychiatry 2 #32: huntington’s marionette

Frank Prem

 

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

 

~

  • Author: Frank Prem (Offline Offline)
  • Published: April 10th, 2018 01:56
  • Comment from author about the poem: Franks Psychiatry Pt 2 - student daze.
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Comments3

  • Nicholas Browning

    This is some crazy and unpredictable stuff. I like it.

    • Frank Prem

      Ha, Nicholas! Welcome to my world.

    • Laura🌻

      Frank,
      So difficult to watch...I’m sure! Such a horrible untreatable disorder! Do you know how long she lived from the onset of the disorder?

      ~Laura~

      • Frank Prem

        Not much past mid-40's, I think Laura. It strikes pretty young.

        • Laura🌻

          So, so sad!

        • Goldfinch60

          Such an awful disease that strikes so young.

          • Frank Prem

            Very nasty indeed, GF.



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