"Out at the Mental Hospital" by Anne Sexton

No one has been tamed out at McLean
See how the machine man is pounding with his stick!
Notice that the pole girl rides a noon plane
over her lunch The clock browses It's sick...


...............

Let us have pity,
Let us have pity.
Night comes on and the nurses offer up a pill
while the stars in the sky burn like neon jacks.

Taken from "Gracefully Insane" by Alex Beam