Neurosis
Who wriggles this tongue?
Who bruises us?
When my fingers twitch,
and my muscles knot,
and my panic boils over.
It has been months.
What work has been done to develop these crevasses?
A weeks pay,
Will that smooth out the particular rotted groove?
I find you counting the freckles on their face,
How else could you stomach eye contact?
I wake up screaming words I mu...
Tuesday 26th April 2022 3:53 pm
Shredded
We'd made love as usual
A heavy night in the sack
After breakfast I told her
I was never coming back
Inexplicable the only word
Why so drastic a measure?
What impulse drove me to
Quit a house of pleasure?
A bitter taste in my mind?
Neurosis bending my head?
Maybe the new marmalade
Made my psyche see red
She'd always been restless
The place in a...
Tuesday 13th October 2020 11:13 am
Evening Class
Eight Monday evenings for two hours
"Psychology for Beginners":
Ego, super-ego, id
Neurosis by osmosis, Freud, Jung Adler,
Cognitive therapy, Gestalt, Twin studies,
Attachment Theory
I never knew how unhappy I was
I'm half-way through now, a mass of
Symptoms, fresh phobias
Nesting in my head, making sense of what caused
Those empty evenings to start with.
...
Saturday 2nd May 2020 11:26 am
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