After Feud
There's great therapeutic value
in unloading disappointments
unhappiness of others
not rising to expectations
which is why
psychiatrists have it made
they've learned
the wonderful attribute
of listening, gently probing
as though another's discontent
matters, personally.
Themselves
close-mouthed as a matter of
professional self-preservation.
Who's ever to discover that they
aren't after all wizards
of the arcane cult of living?
Who'll ever know about their
predilection for coke
(I mean the real thing)
obsession with dainty extremities
infantile fear of the dark
proclivity to premature ejaculation
UND ZO ON?
c. 1980 Rita Rosenfeld
published in Origins, June 1980
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