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SYSLANA-OHCYSP.
Go; free association.
Bending backwards
As I speak between the cracks of my creation
And the rest of the impending doom that foresees
her mediation
Rewinding, turning, mind
-twisting,
The arrows cruelly binding,
Around the clock she’s smiling, writing
Counterclockwise,
hours passing
Down the hall where she’s extracting
repressed expired old films
and reminiscing but man,
analyzing
Just seems to be so f*cking
time consuming
And she’s talkin’ dreaming
God the Freudian’s still speeching,
(‘Oh my god it’s finally making sense!’)
I ask, mind considering
But the medicinal, neurological basis
Of solution?
But the last ditch effort to fix the
drowning mistakes
Five years of something
I couldn’t take back! What
If I wanted to mediate?
What if I wanted to
tell them to their faces,
What would had followed had they
not contemplated, they're
Going through with this torment
separation, the rifts of their
wistful cracked relation
I watched as she comes up on time
As the velvet couch sinks the
past that I’ve,
tried so hard to suffocate.
—- A.T.
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The name of the poem is simply the word ‘psychoanalysis’ backwards. Written on a whim, it was originally supposed to be a humorous commentary on psychoanalytic therapy but it took two days to finally figure out the ending. The beginning term, ‘free association’, is a common practice used by psychotherapists where the client freely shares thoughts, words, and anything else that comes to mind, not needing to be coherent. Psychoanalysis frequently attempts to uncover repressed and unconscious thoughts that may be unknowingly motivating or harming the client, hence the metaphor ‘expired old films’. The ‘medicinal..’ line refers to the historical conflict that Freudians and psychiatrists had between each other and ‘true’ solution to mental illness. I’ll leave the second half up to interpretation. Cheers!