Abandoned and Neglected

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I once held many patients
Those men-tally ill
Abandoned and neglected
Ruined, empty. still


The Metropolitan State Hospital in Waltham, Massachusetts was a public hospital for the mentally ill until it was shut down in 1992 as a state cost-saving policy.



Don Matthews
February 2023



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