Poem: ”Asylum Song” -- institutionalized mental illness and hope after mass shootings

CONTENT WARNING: mention of severe mental illness, behavioral hospitals, and the most recent mass shootings.

Join me for a reading of my original poem, "Asylum Song," and my discussion on how this poem is informed by the unfortunate sub-human treatment mental health patients receive in institutions that cannot and do not truly regard them as human, our need to bother caring about things that harm the human dignity of every person, and where I find hope in the wake of enormous tragedies.

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Music: "Beer Belly Blues" by John Deley