After Freud

There's great therapeutic value
in unloading
disappointments
unhappiness of others
not rising to expectations
which is why psychiatrists
have it made; they've learned
the wonderful attribute
of listening, gently probing
as though another's discontent
matters, personally.

Themselves
close-mouthed as a matter of
professional self-preservation.
Who's ever to discover that they
aren't after all wizards
of the arcane cult of living?

Who'll ever know about their
predilection for coke
(I mean the real thing)
obsession with dainty extremities
infantile fear of the dark
proclivity to premature ejaculation.

UND ZO ON?