Chapter Twelve
Drugs, Sex, & Death
&
The Universal Declaration
of Human Rights
Bellevue Boy
By Rusty Cage
Through the bars, the sun goes
down
I sit alone in my padded cell
waiting for the morning to come
my baby's locked in room 101
(from 1984)
I know what the Doctor said about
the voices inside of my head
‘Can I find love in a place like this?’
'yeah a little dab'll do you
now' (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's
Nest)
We were out in the yard when I
first saw you there running your
fingers through your malnourished
hair
I asked you to be my woman,
yeah, and you said maybe
it ain't easy being crazy,
but I'm crazy for you baby
Chorus
I'll be your Bellevue boy
If you'll be my psychopathic
woman
we'll spend the rest of our lives
talking to ourselves, bouncing off
the walls all night
Bridge
l
like the spider eats the fly, (R.M.
Renfield, Dracula)
the bird eats the spider,
you take your pills, you wash it
down with apple cider
my friends they tell me they like
you, they live in my head
I think about you when they strap
me to the bed, yeah
Chorus
End
Another example of the similarities of psychiatric hospitals and prisons is shift change. Max had participated in each, and he had observed that it was the time the outgoing shift would exchange information with the oncoming shift of the major events of the day. It was about who had broken a rule, who was in seclusion, who to watch out for, and other pertinent information.
It was the time when usually I was being watched over by the least amount of staff. Therefore, I was most vulnerable or more accurately stated; those within my walls were most vulnerable. It was the most opportunistic time for patients/inmates to break rules. It was the best time for trading drugs, drug trafficking, consensual sex, or nonconsensual sex, as in rapes, or stabbing/shanking someone with whom you may have a beef, or committing suicide.
The process was easy. Example, if you wanted to have sex, you would have a friend distract an orderly through conversation with them facing your friend. You would always have the orderly/guard face your friend with the orderly/guard having their back to the area you are not wanting them to see, like a closet, or bedroom, where two patients/inmates could slip into to have sex unnoticed.
Yes, Virginia, not only does Santa Claus exist, but even the so-called crazies like, and do have sex, as do inmates, and most human beings on planet earth.
Max was aware of the practice, and would usually come in early to catch up on the news of the day, so when his intuition would tell him something was not right, he felt comfortable enough to walk out of the shift change meetings to walk the halls to make sure his patients were safe. Max had extremely sensitive intuition. I could see the abuse within my walls, but Max could sense it.
One time Max walked my unit, did his head count that was a constant for him, and came up two bodies short. He did a recount, so he could be aware of who was missing, and realized it was Betsy and Kent.
They were both Caucasian, in their twenties, and soon to be released. Max checked Kent’s room and it was empty, he then went to Betsy’s room and discovered Kent...
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