Hurt once and for all into silence
A long pain ending without a song to prove it
Who could stand beside you so close to Eden
When you glinted in every eye the held-high razor
Shivering every ram and son?
Now, silent looney-bin
Where the shadows live in the rafters like day-weary bats
Until the turning mind, a radar signal
Lures them to exaggerate mountain-size on the white stone wall
A derogatory term for an insane asylum. A.M. Klein had to go to a psychiatric ward in 1954 after attempting suicide.
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