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Poem Details
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| Title: | Without a Smoke |
| Author: | Ben |
| Date Submitted: | 4/30/2005 |
| Email: | bensky@ihug.co.nz |
| Poem: |
I can put up with the pain that a severe mental illness gives me every waking moment of the day. I can put up with living my life for now in a psychiatric hospital. I can put up with being estranged from my family and friends. I can put up with having psychotic episodes and the resultant turmoil that they have created in my life. I can put up with the never-ending round of doctors, nurses, hospitals and therapy. But I cannot put up without a smoke.... |