Category Archives: derealization

TRAVELING PEOPLE PART I– DISSOCIATIVE BLUES

( Notes on this poem….Well, I am on the road traveling with my children for a week or so, and thought that this would be the perfect time to publish a set of three poems called Traveling People. This first … Continue reading

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INPATIENT

(notes on this poem: I have been in a Psychiatric Hospital twice now. Each time I spent 30 days. Both times I came into the hospital suicidal and very very dissociated. I was so dissociated that it was difficult for … Continue reading

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FAR COUNTRY

(Notes on this poem: Sometimes when I walk into Walmart (anyplace really) I will look around at all the people and I wonder who they are… I will stand there and wonder about their lives. Then I will slowly start … Continue reading

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20+ THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT JONATHAN ALTER

1. I love my wife (even though we are separated and in couples therapy) I love her and always will. Angela does not believe I love her, and for me this is difficult. Like the rest of the world; we … Continue reading

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