In the lounge of a psychiatric hospital
in Belmont, Massachusetts
a world, two worlds
I discover in this muddy fluid
of energy, disease
felt by those
who have waded through hope.
It's the aseptic nirvana,
here are the initiated.
Post-depression.
We don’t suffer, yet on the bank
corpses of melted brain
we keep watching in the flow.

Copyright 2000 by Lorenzo Vantaggiato