Ritalin
When I was a homeless teenager on the streets of london
in the early seventies, I consuned copious amounts of
pharmaceuticals, smack, barbs, speed, trips, rat poison and dettol
....one time I even injected whisky intaveniously
just to see how it would feel....
.one thing I used to neck was ritalin
which made a heady chemical cocktail for my already scrambled brain
... ritalin is now known as being responsible for retarding growth in children
by disrupting the cycles of growth hormones released by the pituitary gland
it routinely causes gross malfunktions in the brains of children
there is research evidence from controlled scientifik studies
that ritalin can cause atrophy or other permanent physical abnormalities of the brain
a large percentage of children become robotik, lethargik, depressed or withdrawn
withdrawal from ritalin can cause emotional suffering, depression, exhaustion and even suicide
all my life, every day without release
these symptoms don’t cease
inability to give full attention to detail
difficulty with organisation
am easily distracted
I talk excessively
I interupt people
I intrude upon others
all unknowingly........
and when I find myself doing these things
I am wracked with remorse
I blurt out and shout
answering questions before their asked
add to this cerebral soup a spoon or two
of hypodermik goo
and charlie......
and whizz....
and dragons and bombers
and ampules of mass destruction
plus mushrooms of mass invention
plus 0% financial freud detention
my kidneys get confused and don’t know when to drink
my dehydrated brain goes shrink......
shrink......
shrink-wrapped
here’s a rap for the shrink
in disbelief make your eye blink
when we lift the lid there’s a terrible stink
what you heal with your pills
creates societies ills
attention deficit disorder
attention .....deaf.....attention....deaf
dis-attention... order....deficit
tension fit dis and dat order
stay between the borders
that you draw in the sand
for the dumbed down and bland
in every pie is the stain of your hand
how much of this must we stand?
whilst you rake in your grands
you poison our glands
what benefits you doesn’t fit me
you look in my head and say you can see
the things that form barriers to me being me
another bloody miscarraige of psychiatry
when will you see?
it’s the slamming of your doors
that keeps you out....
your labels of sin....
just shut you in....
says the cheshire cat, with a grin...
IN...
IN....
INSANITY
As the rabbit-holes of your memory
turn inside-out in subterranean fraktal glory
can you remember any stories....?
can you percieve past glories....?
or were they never written down?
guarded by our sacred klown
is this making you frown...?
well don’t be afreud
there’s nothing to freud but freud itself.
there’s a mountain of wealth
in pharmaceutikal mental health
on the pharmacy shelf
there’s a bottle that contains your self....
AWARENESS
your self..ESTEEM
right next to the sun-tan creem
and suppositories of vanities dreem
lypo... sucko....anti-reality....kreems
perfumes and potions for mating dreems
assualt on the senseless...
that’s how it seems
how you view the world is not how I see
and if you COULD see
that this trickiatry
with its shock-troops of ECT
and mediaevil alchemy
are a constant parasite on we
“love changes everything” not chemistry
this is no patented mystery
of psycho-babylonian history
dis-satisfaktion guaranteed
“regular use may lead to dependancy....”
“symptoms may arise..............”
“side-effects may occur.........”
“you may suffer sensations....”
“if the condition persists......
please feel free
to shout FUCK OFF!
...... and let me be!”
the only thing that will set me free
is global enlightenment instantly
my condition persists constantly
call now ...lines are free
yours johnny ....aged free
