ON THE TWO HUNDREDTH AND NINETY-THIRD DAY OF THE YEAR

We are living 1914 in 2023.

 You have to ask, you have to ask,

how come those now gone mad

are not held by medics and given calming

words, an appointment to a psychiatrist,

and perhaps a long  rest in a hospital

with an understanding staff, but instead

allowed to still stand before the press

and tell their mad outpourings,

call them policy, and their words

still listened to and spread like

reverenty they wouldn't have gone

utterly mad? And now armies

moving under their command -

you have to ask, you have to ask

how many of us have gone mad

for us to let the insane to do this?

26.10.2023

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