Darnielle - Black Sabbaths Master of Reality

Master of Reality

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to all the children to whom I ever provided care, in the earnest hope that your later lives have brought you the joy, and love, and freedom that was always yours by right

Douglas Wolk; Jess Harvell; Tim Kirk; Jonathan Lethem; David Barker; Lalitree Darnielle: THANK YOU

October 11, 1985

FUCK YOU ALL GO TO HELL

October 12, 1985

FUCK YOU ALL GO TO HELL

October 13, 1985

EVEN IF YOU MAKE ME WRITE IN THIS EVERY DAY TIL THEY LET ME OUT OF HERE IT IS ONLY GOING TO SAY ONE THING, GET USED TO IT

I HATE ALL STAFF, ALL DOCTORS, ALL RTS, AND ANYONE WHO READS THIS

FUCK YOU ALL GO TO HELL FUCK YOU ALL GO TO HELL

October 14, 1985

IF YOU DO NOT LET ME OUT OF HERE FOR MY SISTERS BIRTHDAY (TOMORROW) I WILL NEVER, EVER FORGIVE YOU STUPID SORRY FUCKERS

They took me to the doctor tonight and gave me back all my clothes except my shoes. Why cant I have my shoes, fuck you guys! ALL OF YOU, FUCK OFF AND DIE!!! GO TO HELL!!!

October 15, 1985

I am sitting here writing this, it is 10:30 at night and lights out was half an hour ago (which is stupid by the way) and I am angry I want to kill somebody and that is not a threat so if you write that on my chart all it will do is make me want to kill MYSELF!!! EVEN MORE!!!

As you know because you read this every day,me when I got here and you wont even give it back, when I go to the nurses station for meds I can see my notebook and my Walkman and my bag of tapes all sitting in a cubby with my name on it but you should take my name off it because if I cant have anything in it then its not mine, its YOURS. You should do that, you should just put the hospital name on the cubbies instead of the patients names because you are just taking peoples stuff and keeping it. But!!! You do not have the right to take my stuff away!!! And if you really wanted to help me you would just give me my Walkman and my tapes back because THEY HELP ME and YOU DONT HELP ANYBODY!!! I have never felt worse in my life!!!