CRAZY OR NOT HERE I COME

CRAZY OR NOT, HERE I COME By Phoebe Sparrow Wagner      I used to be “crazy.” Labeled CMI, chronically mentally ill, prone to psychosis, I was a revolving door mental patient, one who spent almost as much time in her adult life in the hospital as out of it. Although I had various diagnoses, the […]

FAIRWELL, SCORPION

FAREWELL, SCORPION by Steven K-Brooks The sign reads, “Fresh Poems.” A handsome young fellow with dark, curly hair sits on a folding chair, his fingers caressing his Smith-Corona. Today this young man’s saxophone is nowhere in sight. Today is dedicated exclusively to poems.  A man slows down as he approaches. Then he stops, reads everything […]

Who’s Crazy?

Who’s Crazy? Every family has secrets. Mine had more than its share. If there were a way that my mother could have avoided telling me about Aunt Rose, I am sure that I would never had found out about her.  Rose had been in Rockland State Hospital since the 1930s when her brief marriage failed, and […]