Billboard Vision 1980

Thankfully I'm Alive
My Uncle Milton
Reminds me
That I Should 
Thank God
For every Day
That I
Should
Be Proud
For I had a Son
It would be So nice
To form a Trust
called after Mervyn Hope Campbell
Called the Hope Foundation??
Whereby
Newly Diagnosed
Psychiatric Patients
Would find Opportunity
Of Employment
I'm a Train-wreck
And more or less
A Career Beneficiary
Which Usually
One would have
Good Reason 
to Condemn
But my Idea of a
Humane Solution
For those that
Present with Mental Illness.
Would be FIRST
Employ
And then 
And only Then…
Medicate
Ad Lib
I have born
The Consequence
Of Using Medication Alone
To treat the Patient
And in my Estimation
It is a Cruel
Stigmatizing
Regime
We are not Rats and Bunnies
But the Mentally Ill
Are Also Human
We must want
For Every Human Being
What We want for Our Own Children
And that is Acceptance
In Our Own Communities
That is my Prayer
For the 
Future
Of Psychiatry

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