this green means artificial
flavorish chalky mint tablets
this color of hospital laundry
the coarse coverlets
the uniform drapes
I know too well
skittish descriptive
Spent any time in hospital?
Yeah, I spent five times
on account of my mind.
Testing testing one two three
45 butterfat pill pushers
shove the teenage me
testing testing one two three
look at her strapped to a hospital bed
thirty five wires they paste to her head
she's saying she's never been better
she's carved into never no never
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
One thousand questions, pencil in your life
they poke around to find an available vein
Rorschach cue-card flasher
I Q tester suit jacket man
tells this kid
"YOU are just TOO SMART for your OWN good!
THIS is one of the HIGHEST scores
I've EVER et cetera. . . "
Oh. That's just great.
But I'm still locked up.
Testing testing one two three
strap my head tight to the table
send me down the conveyor belt
into radiate-my-brain machine
CAT-SCAN laser slice cro