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Alone With The Shrink
by David Pekrul
copyright 02-10-2006


Age Rating: 10 to 127

  Alone With The Shrink
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"Look at this ink-blot and what do you see?"
"Men in white jackets are coming for me."
"Some see a rainbow and some see a ring,"
"God only knows, I don't see a damn thing."

"Look a bit closer and what can you tell?"
"Lock me up quick 'cause I think I'm in Hell."
"There is a story or there is a song,"
"Call me a liar, I think you are wrong."

Showing me ink-blots will drive me insane,
Doctors want answers when playing their game,
Thinking they know what goes on in my head,
I'll never tell them; they won't find a shred.

I am a secret that no one will know,
Hiding my feelings, not letting them show,
Making up stories to lead them astray,
Make them believe all the things that I say.

"I'll say 'desire', now what will you say?"
"I'll say I'm tired and don't want to play."
"Something is really quite wrong in your head,"
"Why don't you find a sane person instead."

Call him a 'Shrink', but I'll call him a liar,
Taking my money so he can retire,
I'm just as 'normal' as everyone here,
I'm not as crazy as what I appear.




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02-13-2006 James Shammas    

You remind me how archaic the Rorschach (spelling?) test is today, and how subjective Psychiatry still is. I enjoyed the humor in this.

Jim
02-12-2006 Mike Macdonald    

Brilliant. Reflects Ambrose Bierce's definition of madness in the Devil's Dictionary.

I wonder if a couple lines might warrant fixing so they sound a little more natural. For example, I like the verse with
"There is a story or there is a song,"
"Call me a liar, I think you are wrong."
but it sounds a tad forced the way it's presented. I think changing the doctor's line to a question would fix it.
"Is there a story? Is there a song?"
"Call me a liar, I think you are wrong."

A couple lines got my attention this way. I think this piece is worth grinding to absolute perfection. The graphic helps set the stage, too.
02-11-2006 William Muth    

dave, once again your rhyming has me green with envy! I would have worked for six months trying to rhyme this poem. And with humor as well. there are shrinks and there are "shrinks". I haven't seen one in years and he was a strict Freudian whom I hear has been a little disproved and toppled from the olympus of Pyschiatry gods. I would guess that the narrator feels the shrink is playing a game of charades and he (the narrator) is mocking him because he doesn't have a clue but keeps guessing. Of those I've read, this is my favorite. And the rhyme and meter are impecable.
02-10-2006 Gregory Christiano    

David: Great tongue-in-cheek humor that would make Hermann Rorschach proud. I wonder if the great Rorschach ever took one of his own ink-blot tests. I can't tell you how I would interpret the ink blot you provided. I have a one track mind! Guess I should join the nuts too. Great fun.
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