The Defendant: Schizophrenia

A convenient disorder of the mind

Has plagued me for a year.

(Or rather It released me)

In the end, It brought me here.

A trial’s a peculiar thing,

it makes the voices loud.

My lawyer said, “It could kill a man.”

Of the bloodshed, “I wasn’t proud.”

My husband never met my friends,

Luci, Nick, and Scratch.

He spent his weekends out of town

Until he met his match