“an endearing threat from my favorite patient of all time”
my mom called in
a sicilian pie for us…
get it or i’ll kill you!
“i have the weekends off”
psychotic patients
dance around the ward and my
day slowly drags on
“an observation on the paid employees vs. the involuntarily committed patients of this state psychiatric hospital”
it’s never good when
the people outside these walls
look worse than those in
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Tohm Bakelas is a social worker in a psychiatric hospital. He was born in New Jersey, resides there, and will die there. His poems have appeared in numerous journals, zines, and online publications. He has published numerous chapbooks in America and the UK, one full-length collection of poems, and two micro-chapbooks.