Dog Speaks
Treatment orders are healthcare like prisons are childcare
These hospitals just have prettier external gardens.
Cops and paramedics armed with an EEA
Our dearests become our security guards
Coercion is an ancient weapon to John, James, Dick, Jack and Harry.
High doses of addictive mind altering drugs are violently enforced
State sanctioned isolation lasts days, weeks or months
It’s not restricted to psych wards.
We are denied access to grass, dirt, moon and sunlight
Oo-ing owls and cool river banks
In favour of needles, concrete and plastic beds
under flickering lights by windows that rarely open without eyes on the other side to watch us not hurt ourselves from within these living tombs.
What is systemic failure to all of us is just business as usual for empire.
Propaganda has been effective.
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The crown stole the mothers heart
His eyes once white become yellow and black
These days rivers don’t run
There is no pitter patter.
They heave, sticky and red.
His name is Pavlov.
Our name is Dog.