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Imagine an earth where everything you see, from discernment’s birth, is a symbol. Mama, Dadaist.  A is for apple,  but it’s more than it seems. Apple might mean poison  grown for vain, maternal schemes. Or . . . it might mean knowledge, Eden forsaken by forked tongue  and a rogue hunger. It may be a…

Jumbled thoughts In quick succession An epileptic seizure Neurotransmitters Synapsis Sensibility Confused The mind A jigsaw puzzle An investigation The chemical significance  Floods my perception Overwhelmed I fall Is this my fault Why am I here A state of emergency In hospital Incarcerated  No place to go My interpretation Opinion or fact

for Irina after Benee’s song ‘Bagels’ (Benemusicc Limited, 2023, https://youtu.be/ARzOSZqY_vo), which was created in collaboration with Youthline NZ, ASB and a team of neuroscientists   When I listen to Benee               hum & speak  over the silkiest of beats, my unfocussed mind flows into a kind of meditative state and focuses on fondest memories of your…

When I walked into the wind today The biting wind so bleak I said to myself, I said, I dread How to remove this thought Out of my head I said to myself, said I Out to the cloud swept sky? Out, out damn thought Stained and marked Out, out I cried Out, out luscious…

I’m a professor Of being a mental patient I have a Cert IV in being counselled A bachelors in seeing a psychologist A masters in completing questionnaires  And a doctorate in dealing with psychiatrists   I am an expert In condensing my life’s story Into an easy to digest Smoothed out and simplified Dot point…