"dear abby" therapy group. preliminary results

Dear Abby,
Why did my ex wife and Her Friend want
me dead in 1980. Why did I Forgive them.


black like a forest and still like a lion
my knees are bended we used to speak a different language

Dear Abby,
I love natural like a forest. The national
forests are filled with dark and looming shadows. And I
was wondering how someone could be a dummy?


i wasted my breath on words soon forgotten left unattended
they're moving their feet but nobody's dancing

Dear Abby,
Hi my name is Leslie I haveing promble in My Life Right now.
One of them is My Daughter get take away
from me but Im fight to get her back Home
with me ms. Abby. also one of my promble
is being up in here watch I get my only
self up in here for help.
So I can a make it better in My Life.
P.s Leslie


how can I blame you for all of the screaming that I've had to turn to
just in time to go off in my hands

Dear Abby,
I always hook-up
with a man who beats
up or dominates. Also I
end up dream comes alw the time
I am teams never wind. I've
been betweened and am know
name is at that I am issue
to settle lamel & doine for
giverable. I $50.00 and hope to
straighten say it like leam to
loon this dyminate b a call to
the loons


black like a forest and still like a lion
my knees are bended we used to speak a different language

ash wednesday

soul of mary, sanctify me
heart of mary, inflame me.

two boys came in in restraints.

the black boy had been released from jail
then he wandered into the homeless shelter
nobody knew how he got there
he couldn't talk
he was just staring wildly
then he started taking his clothes off
so they called the police
when he saw them he freaked out

when they took off the restraints in the hospital
he ran down the hall tearing off his pants
masturbating ferociously
with this terrified look on his face

hands of mary, support me
feet of mary, direct me
immaculate eyes of mary, look upon me
lips of mary, speak for me.

the white boy had been
visiting old friends at the teenager boot camp down south
he got in a fight and tried to jump off a building
so they called the police
when he saw them he freaked out
at the hospital he was incoherent and he couldn't stop talking

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two days later
it was the white boy's 22nd birthday
the nurses went down to the gift shop and picked up
a little gift and wrapped it in blank admission forms
and got a cupcake and a candle
and 17 ice cream cups from the cafeteria
with all the patients in the dayroom
we processed in singing happy birthday
and the white boy stood there manfully
swearing under his breath when tears ran
down his cheeks
he took out the lit candle and held it up in the air
and looked at it a long time before blowing it out
then he wouldn't take the cupcake
he said, "i don't deserve it."

meanwhile the black boy was masturbating in
his bed and swore at the nurses who came in
and it sounded threatening so they called security
four of them marched past the dayroom
with the patients staring
and he freaked out when they came in his room
they wear black uniforms and badges and they carry
batons and tasers and they held him face-down
on the bed and yanked his pants down
for the injection and he was crying
until he fell asleep
thirty seconds later.

oh mary hear me
in thy spirit hide me
with thy wisdom cloak me
let me never me separated from thee

these skinny boys.
in their little a-shirts.
their hair sticking up.
their sleepy eyes in the morning.

the white boy got better and went home.
we found out the black boy could not by law
be involuntarily admitted to the psychiatric hospital
because he was on parole or probation or some shit
so they got him dressed as best they could
sent him back to the emergency room
and they sent him out.
a few hours later police brought him back
because he was sitting on the sidewalk in the
colder-than-freezing wind not talking just staring
and when he saw them he freaked out
but the e.r. couldn't keep him
so they sent him out again
now it's been a week
nobody knows what became of him.
one of the nurses knew him.
he said the black boy and his little brother had both
been in and out of "the system" since they were
little boys - foster care, hospital, rehab, jail,
and so on. he was 21.

the days have gone by.
two women came in with religious obsessions.
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one believed her daughter had the red eyes of a demon.
the other believed her face was changing,
that the medicine was making all the inner ugliness
rise to the surface. both were terrified.
both prayed without ceasing.
haldol risperdal haldol risperdal haldol risperdal.

from my enemies defend me
at the hour of my death, call for me
bid me come to your immaculate heart and there with all
the saints i will praise thee for all eternity oh clement
oh loving oh sweet virgin mary pray for us holy
mother of god that we may be worthy of the promises
of christ

here in the chart in the Nurses Notes it says,
"0800. Patient states that his goal for the day
is to sing a song and fall in love."
then on the next page it says,
"2100. Patient states that today he did not meet
his goal of singing a song and falling in love."