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Mary Barnes

Mary Barnes played an important role in Dr Joseph Berke's life. It was the 1960's and with R. D. Laing at Kingsley Hall, where he helped Mary Barnes, a nurse who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia to emerge from madness. Barnes later became a famous artist, writer and mystic.  

My Friends

Poem

by

Mary Barnes

My Friends -

How they devour me,

Biting off chunks of

my flesh, which with

relish, they chew, spitting

the crunched up bones

onto my soul, and still

I LOVE them, for they

are my Friends

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