His shaven skull and leering smile
Are graven in the national mind.
It’s Jared Loughner’s way to rile
Those mourning whom he left behind
On Tucson’s wretched Saturday.
His joy is other folks’ dismay.
Such mental maladies as these,
No more or less preventable
Than pathological disease,
Should not be more lamentable.
Their stigma wouldn’t cause such dread
If early help were more widespread
However, unless people look
As though they’re capable of harm
To selves or others, they’re mistook
For those who shouldn’t cause alarm,
And seldom get relief in time.
Our health-care system shares his crime.
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