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Mental patients expressed selves in underground art and poetry [US]:

Patients gained an emotional outlet when they were encouraged to express themselves in the tunnels by Natasha Mayers, a prominent Maine artist who taught art at the institute a generation ago. Mayers also brought in professional artists from all over Maine to brighten up one of the tunnels while they were still used by patients and support staff as underground sidewalks between buildings. [...]

But by the look of the things they wrote, they weren't all happy being told to write.

Once more foul dude I say go home,
May narcos follow where you roam,
And fever lay you neath the loam,
'Cause I'll not write no stupid poem!

and

Please don't break down my fortress
And expose my tender self.
I want to take my miseries
And put them on the shelf.

At the Augusta Mental Health Institute in Georgia, US.

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