NO ESCAPING IT (photo) & OF SNAKE OIL AND MENTAL HEALTH (tanka dream series) by Roswila

OF SNAKE OIL & MENTAL HEALTH

they strongly urge me
to admit myself to their
mental health program –
I’ve been behaving in a
rageful uncontrolled manner

though their approach
is one of the new snake oil types
that keep popping up
I recognize I need help
and go through admission

an office worker
sadly announces they don’t
have a bed right now
though a doctor attempts and
fails to work something out

my rage tries but can’t
rise in the middle of this
ironic outcome:
even giving into them
has gotten me nowhere


[re-posting after a few very minor tweaks, of four tanka on a dream of 5-28-10. Photo “No Escaping It” (Screenshots 2-4-19[12]) by Roswila]

PLEASE NOTE: in most browsers you can click on the above image for a larger version. Also, the photo accompanying a post is not necessarily meant to illustrate it, but to reflect some small, even slant aspect of the verse, similar to Japanese haiga (illustrated haiku).

There are many other sorts of posts on this blog. I indicate which are about or influenced by dreams. Some non dream focused posts are book reviews, "regular" poems (some by other writers), scifaiku, writing exercises, Tarot haiku, photos, haiga, and so on. However, most of those are in much older posts. There's a listing by month going back to early 2006, at the end of the sidebar.

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until next time, keep dreaming,





[a/k/a Patricia Kelly]
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