I think I see him, at his desk, biting the tip of his pen gloomily. This is the end for me.
Tell people like you what happened to you.
At length, after a long mental struggle, he sets his pen to the paper and writes:
“They were sexual deviants.”
The People of Lot. It is possible for a neurotic to get over his disturbance, and for another person to help him do so.
Subject: u wouldn’t believe what they’re doing—they’re punishing them
Subject: OH MILDRED!
Subject: how r they torturing?
He paces up and down his room for a few minutes.
Subject: Superglue up their asshole, then they were force-fed laxatives and water until their insides explode
Subject: OH MY DARLING!
The best way to live with a neurotic is to help him overcome his neurosis.
Subject: OH MILDRED!
Subject: OH HAROLD!
Subject: OH MILDRED!
They embrace.
Is it possible? Can an emotionally disturbed individual actually get better? Be effectively cured? Categorically, yes.
Subject: when did it start being so bad?
Categorically, yes. But it certainly isn’t easy.
He nerves himself with a cigarette and writes boldly, blindly:
Always we lived with fear and threat but nowadays the threat become more and more and we faced that when before three days when some of persons wearing a black color clothes stopped our car and started to ask us about our names? Jobs? Addresses? Families? Where we go?
Because the disturbance invariably stems from irrational, unrealistic ideas which are learned rather than inherited, it is possible for a neurotic to get over his disturbance, and for another person to help him to do so. (with some difficulty)
“The very first time I saw you—you remember? It was in the Orchard.”
She presses his hand.
“The Apple Blossoms?”
He deletes the apple blossoms.
“Well, at the first moment of seeing you, I knew, even then, that I loved you!”
The dead were normally buried in an extended position with their head towards the North and their legs toward the South.
I am like JFK, they have always wanted to ritualistically me.
Pretty interesting work!
Your poem is insightful and a delight to read.