"Tell me lies about ME": Hard-hitting poem by Carol Rosier

[Tom Kindlon]

Tell me lies about ME

I was run over by the truth one day
Ever since I’ve had ME I’ve thought this way;
So you stop my mouth with CBT
Tell me lies about ME

Heard the alarm clock while screaming in pain
Couldn’t get up, fell asleep again;
So you splint my legs with GET
Stop my mouth with CBT
Tell me lies about ME

Endless Forms are all I see
Blatant persecution by the DWP;
So you fill my ears with ATOS lies
Splint my legs with GET
Stop my mouth with CBT
Tell me lies about ME

I smell something burning, suspect it’s just my brain
GP says it’s my imagination - another bogus claim;
So you ignore the evidence before your eyes
Fill my ears with ATOS lies
Splint my legs with GET
Stop my mouth with CBT
Tell me lies about ME

Where was the government at the time of the crime?
Drafting NICE Guidelines – what a waste of time;
So you falsely claim that nobody dies
Ignore the evidence before your eyes
Fill my ears with ATOS lies
Splint my legs with GET
Stop my mouth with CBT
Tell me lies about ME

You send your psychiatrists in, you take your conscience out
You take the human being and you mangle it about;
So you Section me to stop my cries
Falsely claim that nobody dies
Ignore the evidence before your eyes
Fill my ears with ATOS lies
Splint my legs with GET
Stop my mouth with CBT
And pray to hell you don’t get ME!

Carol Rosier, December 2013
Based on the Poem ‘To whom it may concern’ by Adrian Mitchell (1964)

From: OMEGA magazine
http://omegaoxon.org/media/newsletters/OMEGA NEWSLETTER VOL 85 Spring.pdf

 

[lauluce]

It's great. I think it can be recited as a rap song, too, an angry one