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SYSLANA-OHCYSP.

April 2, 2023
By tamiimandy141 BRONZE, Lakeside, California
tamiimandy141 BRONZE, Lakeside, California
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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.


The author's comments:

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!


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