After Freud

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

predeliction for coke

(I mean the real thing)

obsession with dainty extremities

infantile fear of the dark

proclivity to premature ejaculation

            UND ZO ON? 

C.1995