The Place To Wait

About the Book

The Some Die Mad quatrain continues as Malcolm Ward and his fellow pilot group therapy patients at Mid-State Hospital fight not only their own severe and probably fatal flaws but also try to topple a megalomaniacal superintendent and a system literally out to remove them permanently.

About the Author

44288: b. 6/10/35. A 1953 graduate of Newark, Ohio High School, 44288 was President of Honor Society, Treasurer of Student Council and Secretary of Key Club. Won Denison University scholarship. Worked 11 months on B&O Railroad Section, Outville Gang. Managed Newark Municipal Pool three summers. Dropped out of Ohio State University after being accepted into Law School for class of 1957. Went instead to New York to become a poet. Wound up on New York Bowery. Thumbed up and down Eastern Seaboard while on the road. Probated Columbus State Hospital Fall of 1958. Wrote quatrain Some Die Mad 1962/63. End recorded at Akron St. Thomas Hospital Alcoholic Ward Labor Day of 1968. High school file contained standard document asking 44288 what he wanted to do in life and after he graduated. He said he wanted to “Be a writer.”—Perry Aayr.