The talking cure

Talking Cure*

My client said it was sleep defecation bothering him,

after last week sharing, he just couldn't deal

with all that rigor mortis again.

Both times I just looked at him

and nodded.

Because really

what was there to say—?

I was damn tired of it too.

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* based on a true story of malapropisms shared with my husband during therapy (rest assured: no client confidentiality was broken in the re-telling)