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An Elegy For Paul (From The Locked Unit)

Mark Fleury

Paul has been made obedient by medication.
This morning, much the same as every morning,

He challenged, as though it was a timeless
Duty, the results of his diagnosis,

And following the peaceful impulses
Of his heart, made us laugh, telling jokes

In the smoking room and creating for me
Poetry, spontaneous joyful and lucid, about

Playing baseball as a boy in the sunlight.

Though he’s barley 30, we were all children
To him. He took care of us.

Now, ordered to get a clean shirt,
He wraps a bed sheet around his torso

And walks across the gray carpet
With a broad smile, drooling like an infant,

Eyes glazed and drained of dignity.

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