[ abjection ]
subject refuses to sleep
subject insists that he has secret knowledge of a conspiracy involving the cia and large
pharmaceutical companies
subject walks obsessively down the corridor in the same direction
subject refuses medication
subject does not wash or brush teeth
subject insists on talking to a lawyer
subject pulls at hair
subject stares out the window consistently
subject refuses therapy
subject rocks back and forth
subject displays writing behavior
subject continues to write
subject will not stop writing
subject will not stop writing
subject will not stop writing
subject will not stop writing
subject will not stop writing
[ ABJECTION ]
TO the ether beyond what calyx proclivity
docile sentry becomes unbounded hitherto
TO what eye of lacrimal joy bursts apart
below not buried weeping song of shit
TO detethered centrifugal force push
out the placental bloody blossom there
TO refracted light combs curling round
the maggot frost forthwith revealing
TO synecdotal hymns shank raw flesh
napkins of wipe that stupid frown away
TO malignant bliss rocks melting in tubs
protracted from stanzaic triangulation
Evan Reynolds is a Chicago-based poet whose work focuses on the experience of schizophrenia.
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