Psychiatric Times. Vol. 25 No. 2

Seeing Things

Richard Berlin

By
| February 1, 2006

Dr. Berlin is associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Dr. Berlin recently established the Gerald F. Berlin Creative Writing Award at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, the only medical student creative writing prize in the United States.

When I ask him the difference between a dwarf
and a midget, he says, A dwarf is small and
a midget is scared walking at night
down North Street when WBRK broadcasts
out of my head, Jesus Christ! and Bush
and the 9/11 Commission, they're behind it,
Jesus Christ! and the cops came and Jesus
jumps out of the cruiser wearing a badge
on his white robes, I swear! and Jesus
sails into the air and lands on my shoulders
Jesus Christ! Hallelujah!
right on my shoulders, and he sat there
and told me I was saved, see what I mean?
"I see," I tell him. "Yes, I see."
But I doubt he saw how it seemed to me.

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