The Ward (Part 2)


“If a muslim brother borrows your car…

…and trashes it, can you sue him?”

–Malik, during group


“I don’t care who you are, if someone 

trashes your car…SUE HIM.”

…says the snooty atheist with his salty pointed nose 

dripping with vinegar as though he was melting into 

a puddle face-up made of muck

 while walking out of the room.


Good riddance, as I put on my conceptually rounded 

eye-glasses akin to a protestant intellectual,

& GOOD QUESTION, Malik

A REAL GOOD QUESTION.


Let’s discuss, analyze & pursue a reasonable answer 

to this serious inquiry. It’s almost advice in 

the form of a question…


My experience in The Ward, 

deluded, depressed, destitute, derelict. 

Everything became an object of discussion.

8 o’clock comes so SLOWLY.

S n a c k t i m e

S a n d w i c h     t i m e

I c e    c r e a m    t i m e

Living between feeding times.

Living FOR feeding times.

Mac n’cheese 

AllTheTime

Those sandwiches? 

Them one’s from the E.R.?

Never, never, never…until    

h a m   s a n d w i c h    t i m e  

SNACK TIME

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