Special School

Lowen Puckey
Sep 8, 2018 · 1 min read

At the school the staff

are lovely and I try to

smile at the other parents

but their eyes are on the floor

and the exit sign.

They are all wraiths going

through the motions of the lives

they thought they would have.

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Lowen Puckey

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Advocate for mental health, chronic illness and disability. Sometime writer of funnies & fiction. Perpetual drinker of tea.

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