How strange that Kathy brought it home— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —
to me today tripping on acid, Helen … Helen
in perspective … Helen explainable … Helen real
and now magical … Helen intact.
All my work to shed roles and avoid subjective
artifice struggling so against habits and training
to leave my heritage behind me and I found
waiting on the same station platform when I arrived,
Helen. Helen, stripped of all the same
by reason of biochemical insanity, there at the same
juncture. One stripped by volition and one by
insanity .. we recognized our kin
no matter how we had come there.
gallagher
13 sep 79