It was an asylum
In a time when therapies
Were often abusive
Or tickets to oblivion
In a time when therapies
Were often abusive
Or tickets to oblivion
I wonder how many inmates
Especially the most sane
Took this sign as an invitation
To attempt the window
Or, as a metaphor
To ascend the stairway
Following the sign
Seen only by those
Already going up
Alas, the window
Impassable
For its iron mullions
Scantily clad prison bars
The stairway, then
Trading the pained oblivion
Of numbness
For the sweet oblivion
Of nothingness
Crease Building
Riverview Hospital
Coquitlam
British Columbia, Canada
Riverview Hospital
Coquitlam
British Columbia, Canada
Taken on location for The Magicians, 2015