Muzzled Misfit

 

Once again they committed me
quite forcibly
to my second home,
the State Mental Institution

My crime was acting inappropriately
in a public library
so I was wrongfully incarcerated
on the trumped up charges
of disturbing the peace

My stirring defense

was this world
is already disturbed
and desperately needs

Shakespearean enlightenment
 
Today my stage

is this new prison venue
where I perform daily
my tour de force Hamlet soliloquy
to a captive audience
of fellow social deviants

A shackled prisoner of my time am I

who is forbidden

by a repressive society

to be what I am meant to be

Now I know how Jesus felt on the cross