hooligan street poetry

At A Mental Health Forum Next To The Chapel In A Hospital

Ransom notes

many lights orderlies to and fro

the breath of climate control machinery

stained glass glowing impotent

platitudes gilded vanished healer

shuffling feeble institutions

there should be more love

smoking in the thunderstorm

do you believe in god? karma?

the ankh the elements the cathedral

taste of tapwater/chicken kebabs

there should be more love

we can organize it better eliminate

the stigma orderlies to and fro

eyes slightly wide

in the bathroom mirror i can’t cope

without you modern ecce homo/crucifixion

i’ve been in hospital five times

let’s move together towards psychotopia

there should be more

love orderlies to and fro

quiet sigh of air conditioning

there should be more

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Robin Dale

Robin Dale is a part time bohemian and poet, and a full time schizophrenic living in Ferntree Gully, Melbourne, Australia. He was born in the UK and came to Australia in 1970 at the age of 8 with family. Educated in the Western District of Victoria and at Melbourne University where he lived at Queen's College, he quit a postgraduate course in 1987 in order to write. He did odd jobs until 1990 when schizophrenia struck and he was hospitalised with psychosis. For the next thirty or so years he has suffered at the hands of a demonic power, which continues without abatement. In between hospital visits he has continued writing with much success, although he is virtually unpublished. He currently lives in an aged care facility.