Insanity is Relative
“Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.”
- Ray Bradbury
“If we weren’t all crazy, we would go insane.”
- Jimmy Buffett
I just got home from a 13-hour day at the hospital. Words truly fall dreadfully short in their capacity to describe my day today, and how I feel right now.
However, I am oddly compelled to express my thoughts. So I shall attempt to do so in a quasi-poem format:
“13 Hours”
Thirteen hours of madness
Fluctuating sadness
Antipsychotics lubricate
Food deprivation permeates
Murder, abuse and horror
Latex gloves are no barrier
We say irritability
You claim normalcy
Marijuana and sharpie fumes
Fear trapped inside unlocked rooms
Warm food from uncles in paper bags
Scribbles on prescription pads
Soft restraints
Physical complaints
Feces in bags thrown at us
Examine this mental status
Aggression flowers
In 13 hours
I need food, STAT. My job inspires me in strange ways…