Drawing by Judith Wolfe
Rebecca Lu Kiernan

Poem


      THE PSYCHIATRIST

      This angelic tenderness is too much.
      Your office, too burgundy, too leather.
      Your desk is too cherrywood.
      You have gone overboard in decoration.
      I am sick of your x-ray vision,
      Your unnerving telepathy
      And irresponsible precognition,
      The way you try to medicate my ghosts away
      Because they are such stiff competition.

      Your hands and eyes are too soft.
      Your mouth opens mine without warning.
      You taste like butterscotch and Red Bull.
      I rake my hand through your stylishly graying hair,
      Your fingers, so deep inside me
      Making circles, wide and wider
      Preparing me for the thickness of you.
      I straddle you,
      One berry brown nipple in your mouth
      And milk your one o'clock erection
      With my Kegel muscles
      Because the wingback chair
      Creaks guiltily when we move.
      As you climax, I stretch your mouth,
      Forcing my whole breast inside
      So your waiting patients cannot hear
      The way you cry out when you come.

      That's what you say my dream meant,
      The two of us playing chess in the storm
      After missing the train,
      Never getting wet
      Because we don't believe in rain.


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