Institutionalized B

Perfect, straight lines
Desks in a row right legs on line between tiles.
Florescent lights...
Overhead tiles roughly 1.5 X 6...
Institutional smell
wafting up one’s nose on overheated air
Cafeteria
sounds from around the corner.

Stripped
mandatory showers before men,
Censored
library meaning shattered and,
Broken
Spirit, Heart, and Glass Menagerie
Ridicule
the different, special, unique,
incongruent
freak.

by MJ Published in Bayou Review.