Alicia Patti - Committed

Why did Nurse Ratched think
she had dibs on all the nuts in the bag?
The little power she enjoyed pushed her
over the edge. I was there, I know:
brooding over maniacal technicians presiding
over the hopelessly deluded, passing out their
pitiful pacifiers. But not me. NO!
I was completely sane.

Endogenous depression, they said,
is all in the head:
'Who is the President of the United States?
Interpret Early to bed and early to rise...
How about a stitch in time
saves nine? '

I knew the answers, of course -
but then came the shock treatments...

I was cured, they said,
when they let me go.

Alicia Patti

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