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On Therapists

Confession—

Ally Delshad TehraniMay 26, 20261 min read

Confession—

that is the only word
that comes to mind
when I hear
the word therapist.

No—wait.

A dark little chamber appears as well:
a priest
and a groaning child.

O spiritual father
in the robes of pseudo-science!

You are not the Christ
of Christ Recrucified1.

You are the cross itself—
to which
the hands of life
are nailed.

You—
remnant of Freud’s complexes2,
beneath the f…

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