Psycho Therapy

She’s nothing if not practical –

indeed, among her several premises
the most inarguable is that
if you want to save your sanity
you’d better learn how better to behave.

She’s happy to point out
the myriad absurdities
with which you cram your psychic cave –
and if she claims to offer therapy at all
it surely must at heart be cognitive:

revealing all the fixes faulty thinking
gets you into: sinking you into despair –
therefrom to summon up new strategies, 
with her, to live your life – in her intensive
care. But ah, she’s got you there.

Quivering in revelations not entirely
your own, you’re prone, she knows,
to other more mysterious
investigations – to be pursued
with one immensely secret aim:

to underscore that this is her,
not your, mind-fucking game. You’re

a brand new burning bush! –

and she’s the one who grew it.

Doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do it.

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