Manic Panic

John G. Young, M.D.

My manic
in her
panic
keeps on
going,
never stopping
though near
dropping,
near exhausted, .....................ideas.
never sleeping, ...................of
hardly eating,................ flight
always talking, ...........her
talking, talking .......on
as she carries me off

She would clang as she sang with the gang,
when the bell rang, fang, hang...

Yes, she needed rest. I needed rest.
We needed rest.

But she could not stop
going, stop moving, stop talking, stop!

For if she did
she would become...very...depressed.

"I feared

stopping

stopping

stopping

so I

kept on

going

going

going

for I

feared

to stop

going

though I

wanted to

stop

I kept

on going

for fear

nothing'd

be there

when I

stopped

going,

stopped."