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Craiglockhart (Not Yet Diagnosed Nervous)

by Ian Whiteley

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Craiglockhart (Not Yet Diagnosed Nervous)

When I kicked over the wheelchair
I couldn’t do the simplest task,
except the epileptic flailing
of my military antimasque.
Turning on the hissing gas-lamp
had me reaching for the mask.
You opened up my mind
and you didn’t even ask.

Sh-sh-sh shut the fuck up,
I think I’m going insane,
I’ve got all these bombs
going off in my brain.
I’m lik...

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Wednesday 2nd July 2014 3:17 pm

Craiglockhart Miliotary Hospital   mental illness   PTSD   richpix   Shell Shock   treatment   WW1   SITWB

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