it made for an almost feminine appearance
in a strictly masculine face
as though he'd applied a heavy make-up
but it was actually just the eyebrows
funny how you don't notice them at first
just the look of a stranger
on someone who is actually familiar
disconcerting
he'd done half his head as well
hard to know where the obligations begin and end
with someone who is a Patient
held against his will
Fashion-Police
doesn't come within the standard
Psychiatric Nursing job description
I told him the female staff
and some of the patients
were complaining about him
masturbating all over the place
I said he should keep it in his pants
and to act like an adult
or he'd end up in Seclusion
he asked
but what about when my pants slip
and I have to grab them
showing me with one hand on the waist-band
and one cupping his jewels
or
what about if I'm walking
and just need to...
scratching in the general vicinity
nope
I'd have none of it
I told him
he looked vaguely disappointed
tried out another
what if …
before focusing on a cigarette
and mumbling about not meaning to …
I never quite got
what he wasn't meaning to …
I'm a little deaf
and he's a little brain damaged
and it was just a passing discussion
distracted by the absence
of eyebrows
~
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Author:
Frank Prem (
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- Comment from author about the poem: Franks Psychiatry Pt 4 - acute observations.
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So many differing problems.
Yes, GF. All kinds.
Frank,
This read took me by surprise!
But then when I thought about it, it shouldnāt have because as GF said, āSo many differing problemsā that anything can happen!
~Laura~
Just when you think you know what's happening ... you don't!!
Exactly!
Imagine you going in every day not knowing what would happen! I guess you expected just about anything!
... and then getting to the point where even that is all too predictable ...
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