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Old Burt in the madhouse has hanged himself.

Fritz Hamilton

Old Burt in the madhouse has hanged himself.
Of course, at Chicago State he could have had help.
No one knows what the guards do to amuse themselves.

Burt is hanging in the stairwell where the last one did it.
He has gone from subject to object in a few seconds.
His neck hasn’t begun to stretch, but it will.

Patients’ bones have been found buried in the yard.
Burt’s neck could stretch ten feet to the floor,
unless the stench grows too much, & they remove him.

Nobody will look into it because they’d rather cover it up.
Burt’s bones could go with the others into the yard.
I guess this is how the guards amuse themselve.

Burt doesn’t care whether he or the guards hanged him.
He stopped caring an hour or so ago.
Others care because they have to get rid of him, or

he’ll make a stink - tee hee hee! - &
that’s not a good cover up.
Old Burt in the madhouse has hanged himself,
unless the guards did it.

So what ...

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