| 6 years ago :: Dec 17, 2007 - 11:26AM #1 | |
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This was on the last page of one of my psych finals. I thought you all would enjoy it! The paper is smudged, but I think the author is X. J. Kennedy.
A Visit From St. Sigmund Twas the night before Christmas, when all through each kid Not an ego was stirring, not even an id. The hangups were hung by the chimney with care In hopes that St. Sigmund Freud soon would be there. The children in scream class had knocked off their screams, Letting Jungian archetypes dance through their dreams, And Mamma with her bra off and I on her lap Had just snuggled down when a vast thunderclap Boomed and from my unconscious arose such a chatter As Baptist John's teeth made on Salome's platter. Away from my darling I flew like a flash, Tore straight to the bathroom and threw up and - smash! Through the windowpane hurtled and bounced on the floor A big brick - holy smoke it was hard to ignore. As I heard further thunderclaps - lo and behold - Came a little psychiatrist eighty years old. He drove a wheeled couch pulled by five fat psychoses And the gleam in his eye might induce a hypnosis. Like subliminal meanings his his coursers they came And consulting his notebook, he called them by name: "Now Schizo, now Fetish, now Fear of Castration! On Paranoia! On Penis Fixation! Ach, yes, that big brick through your glass I should mention: Just a simple device to compel your attention. You need, boy, to be in an analyst's power; You talk, I take notes - fifty schillings and hour." A bag full of symbols he'd slung on his back; He looked smug as a junk-peddler laden with smack Or a shrewd politician soliciting votes And his chinbeard was stiff as a starched billygoat's. Then laying one finger aside of his nose, He chortled, "What means this? Mein Gott, I suppose There's a meaning in fingers, in candles und wicks, In mouseholes und doughnut holes, steeples und sticks. You see, it's the imminent prospect of sex That makes all us humans run round till we're wrecks, Und each innocent infant since people began Wants to bed with his mamma und kill his old man; So never you fear that you're sick as a swine - Your hangups are every sane person's und mine. Even Hamlet was hot for his mom - there's the rub; Even Oedipus Clubfoot was one of the club. Hmmm, that's humor unconscious." He gave me rib-pokes And for almost two hours explained phallic jokes. Then he sprang to his couch, to his crew gave a nod, And away they all flew like the concept of God. In the worst of my dreams I can hear him shout still, "Merry Christmas to all! In the mail comes my bill!" |
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| 5 years ago :: Jan 09, 2008 - 3:49AM #2 | |
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Anesis Well, Christmas has gone and so have St Nic and St Sig, but that's not a poem at all. Perhaps especially the punchline. |
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| 5 years ago :: Jan 24, 2008 - 12:57AM #3 | |
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Anesis Well, Christmas has gone and so have St Nic and St Sig, but that's not a poem at all. I now see what I wrote. I'm extremely sorry to have sounded so rude, and I apologize accordingly. I intended to write - Well, Christmas has gone and so have St Nic and St Sig, but that's not a bad poem at all. |
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