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From: "Malcolm Robinson" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2008 10:12 PM
Subject: Re: 2 poems
> Dante...no matter...very tight indeed...the future recalls the past...did
> you ever see any of these 'nightmare' places...?
>
No. In the Sixties I knew a girl who worked at a state hospital. We were
discussing the Bottom of Society and she said, "There is no one bottom. At
the very end of the line at the state hospital there are two wards, one for
psychopaths and the other for terminal alcoholics. I worked in both. The
psychos will tell you, Well, we're in here because we're nuts but at least
we're not like those guys across the hall - at least we're not alkies. And
the alkies will tell you, At least we're not nots. There is no one bottom.
Everyone has someone to kick."
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