Ways to Escape the Bin

Start talking in a calm collected manner

Stop mentioning how much you want to die

Pretend to eat most of your meals

(You can flush most of the stuff if you need to)

Start washing your hair, wearing makeup

Get dressed everyday; no more wearing

Hospital pyjamas all day, every day

When you meet with your doctor

Be amiable and agreeable and say you

Will definitely try the new medication regime

It sounds like just the ticket – don’t ever

Let on that you’ve been palming the pills

They’ve been giving you since you arrived

On the ward; what they don’t know might

Hurt you, but as of now, you don’t care

When they suggest you go to group therapy

Nod enthusiastically and agree – then go

Contribute, but not too much, just enough

To convince that doctor – the facilitator

That you are well enough to fly the coop

If you are offered a pass, act reluctant but

In the end, accept it, walk out with whomever

In your family has been kind enough to

Fetch you – go home with them, and, at

Your first opportunity, disappear again.