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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Olive M. Ritch
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 202 , Issue 5 , May 2013 , pp. 364
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 2013 

One of the best of minds destroyed by dementia

does not howl on her knees in the street, does not masturbate

in the magnolia living-room, is not dragged off the roof-top,

naked; no, she leaves a message on her daughter's answer-phone

saying: there's an echo, an echo in my head.

Olive M. Ritch is currently completing a PhD in creative writing (on the theme of memory) at the University of Aberdeen. This poem is from The Hippocrates Prize 2011, published by The Hippocrates Prize in association with Top Edge Press. ©Olive M. Ritch.

Chosen by Femi Oyebode.

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