They'll Let You Use Kool-Aid To Dye Your Hair When You're 10 & In The Hospital For Setting Your Childhood on Fire
They'll also let you have a / unicorn birthday cake
They'll also let you have a
unicorn birthday cake and
you can have the fire alarm
go off
when you're in the ward.
They'll light your 10 (ten) candles
for you and they'll let you,
Psychiatry's child, run
outside & possessed
by the noise of alarm & freedom,
overflowing your body
like one thousand
hallelujahs
That will make you feel
special which is how the inside
of a bell must feel when it tastes the
reverberation of a job well done.
They'll let you learn
when they release you
how every pigeon feels
heading into an unknown sky:
You’ll be terrified and alone.
You’ll be Free.
Chrissy Stegman is a poet/writer/chipmunk from Baltimore, Maryland. Recent work has appeared in: UCity Review, Rejection Letters, Gone Lawn, Gargoyle Magazine, Anti-Heroin Chic, Stone Circle Review, Fictive Dream, Inkfish, The Voidspace, 5 Minutes, Libre, and BULL. She is a 2x BoTN and Pushcart Prize nominee. www.chrissystegman.com
