Contrasts
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Enter Mental Patient as he speaks with Therapist
concerning his discharge from the hospital.
Therapist: And how have you been on this
particular day?
Mental Patient: The usual.
Somewhere in the most wretched alley
of a ghetto,
wildflowers bloom
in defiant splendor
their showy colors and beauty
a match to any well- kept garden.
And I am sure butterflies
