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Writer's pictureJim Read

Rooksdown 1972

I have been coming here for seven months

I've made four lampshades, three ashtrays and two footstalls

Nothing has changed

The medication hasn't worked

Slows me down, body and mind

I disappear into the walls


On Thursday - in two days' time

I will be given a general anaesthetic and a muscled relaxant

Electrodes will be clamped to my head

A current of 800 milliamperes will pass through my brain

for several seconds

inducing a convulsion

This procedure will be repeated twice a week for five weeks


The distance to the gate is 80 yards.

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