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"I Hear Voices"
(Perhaps Tomorrow They'll Let Me Walk In The Grounds)

By Angela Hart

"It's 3.21 a.m. and I'm pushing up daisies"
"You will be if you wake anybody else," the nurse replies.

I huddle up in my narrow plastic-sheeted bed.
A drugged stupor takes me to its far-away land.
It's 3.22 a.m., I find a 10p coin and ring my husband.

They're handing out E.C.T. and biscuits tomorrow.
A salty droplet falls from the end of my nose
As I take paparazzo photographs.

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