In Due Time
A Collection of Poems
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"...how to reconcile these two thoughts, if not compassion, then here for naught; then I remember the victim's plea, crying out, "what about me?" The "patients" were the worse offenders, including murderers, rapists, child molesters. "the heinous crimes the past still holds, time spent here justice upholds"
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Larry Green has always loved to write from the time he was in high school and took a Creative writing class and received kind attention from his teacher, Mrs. Perkins. While a psychiatric technician, he learned to document his observations of the behaviors of the patients entrusted to his group for counseling and carried out Dr.’s orders, security of the units, and various other duties involved with interdisciplinary actions of the team; observed a great deal of violence which generated an S.I.R. (Special Incident Report); and, after having written one, had a Dr. read one and candidly remark, “Wow, this is well-written”; and have written various poems about life, love, and his experiences with working with these men. (A.S.H. is a male-only facility).
About the Author
Larry Green is a 66 year old retired L.P.T. (Licensed Psychiatric Technician) living in Atascadero, California since 1980. Out of high school in 1971, he went to work as a counselor in a board and care facility for the developmentally disabled at Holiday House in El Toro, California; He was a Psych. Aide at Columbus State Institute in Columbus, Ohio in 1975; was a supervisor in a sheltered workshop in Fountain Valley, California; He was an orderly at Santa Ana Community Hospital in Santa Ana, California, and at Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach; graduated from Orange Coast College, located in Costa Mesa, California with an Associate Arts degree in 1978; moved to Atascadero in 1980, and became a Living Skills teacher at Escuela Del Rio before obtaining his Psych. Tech. License through Atascadero State Hospital and Cuesta College in San Luis Obispo, California in 1982 and began his career at Atascadero State Hospital, the only maximum security state hospital for the criminally insane in California. His career ran from 1982 to 1999. He learned to observe and record human behaviors in all of these capacities and have always best expressed himself through poetry and prose. He has three grown children 38, 36, and 34 (two sons and a daughter, respectively); and four awesome grandsons, ages 10, 7, 7, and 2, at the time of this writing.