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N Whitten Sep 2015
Success? Oh-**!
You can’t just dabble in it, boy.

You need to bathe with it.
Wash your hair in it.
Spread it on your sandwiches.

Buy expensive jewelry for it.
Name your firstborn after it.
Don’t let psychoanalysts talk you out of it.
Tell everyone you know you have it.
Jump when it says jump.

And remember, at night!
When you and success are alone,
never close your eyes
to make sure it doesn’t sneak off
to embrace someone
more successful than you.
David Moule Sep 2010
Shamans
Psychics
Schizophrenics
Mystics
Medics
Psychoanalysts
Pol­iticians
Hypocrites
It’s in your head
It’s out of mind
It’s before our eyes
but most are blind
Buy Dark
Deal Light
Write left
Felt right
Free consciousness
from the physical fight
to dominate
through fear and hate
Religion and government
feed from the same plate
Inquisitions
Constitutions
Impositions
Insoluble solutions
in poisonous bruise
Drip-fed
in 24hr news
Brain dead
Twisted views
Controlling hands
that turn the screws.


© Verso-(David Moule) 06/03/08
xtyenia Sep 2013
splendid Daisy and Lilith
taken troubled merchants afar
the serenity psychoanalysts
Mateuš Conrad May 2017
who said monks are desperate to get laid? when they can buy an hour's worth of, two month's worth of a gym membership in a brothel? pwah boys gonna get nasty! really? pwau(h) boys gonna get gnasty? locksmith and shovel... we're gonna save rapunzel on the words: go! double! oh look, 'ere they come 'ere they come, the southhampton f.c. fans - oh when the saints... oh when the saints - come marching in... oi! pwah boys... god laid... and i didn't even have to eat at a restaurant, and pay for me and her... just ate her **** out, and that was a prepaid meal.

there's no such thing, as a *poltical
view...
it doesn't exist,
           that statement is either a misnomer
of the word political, or in compound form:
a fallacy...
                there are no views in politics...
politics isn't about having a label ascribed
to yourself, so you can achieve a stasis...
            i really over-exaggerated the point
i'm trying to make...
    so let me simplify...
      there are, no "political" views,
       because in politics, there are only motives!
it's the principle of a monetary system!
there simply aren't "political" views...
there are only motives...
   because that's the prime principle of politics;
it's the basis for third-party exchange
      via a $ or a £...
         strange how 20th century psychoanalysts
didn't allow themselves to encompass this unit...
ego (1), superego (1 + 2), id (0),
and then £ (∞)...
                          this really looks like *******
by now...
             all i wanted to say: there are no
political "views"... by the definition of politics,
id est rei publicae...
     politics-in-itself, it isn't about having a liberal
or a libertarian, a communist, a ****,
           a conservative         point of view...
there are no views in the game of politics,
there are only motives, and these collapse
and self-equate themselves as... simply... self-interests,
  and that's politics shoved into a nutshell;
**** me... it's not that complicated.
Joseph S Pete Oct 2019
The bespectacled elite gathered in the glassy box
of modern architecture, prattling politely about the
poet’s new novel, analyzing psychoanalysts and
parsing the layers of rhetoric that shaped the modern age.

The high-speed spreading at high school debates
served as a high-minded metaphor of linguistic legerdemain,
contained a critique of the vacuity of the era’s political speech.
Outside, a panhandler begged for bites of a breakfast sandwich.
Bobby Dodds Dec 2018
poets are the best- of the worst.
poets are the best psychoanalysts- but can't seem to be happy.
we are the most blessed because of our words-
but the saddest due to understanding them.
poets are a lot of things- but we aren't the best of things,
we only try our hardest.
Qualyxian Quest Sep 2020
The psychoanalysts and the intellectuals
Will have a field day with me

All my sickness visible
Conflicts they can see

I don't deny this mental try
But I write for free

I do my best, if I pass the test
To others I will be

Wounded inspiration
Enduring vulnerability

— The End —