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Nomenclature

My mother never heard of Freud
and she decided as a little girl
that she would call her husband Dick
no matter what his first name was
and did. He called her Ditty. They
called me Bud, and our generic names
amused my analyst. That must, she said,
explain the crazy times I had in bed
and quoted Freud: "Life is pain."
"What do women want?" and "My
prosthesis does not speak French."

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  • barefoot contessa
    May 13, 2004
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    I wish this was a little bit longer, because it seemed that it was still so much to say in this one. Hey the abstract meaning was awesome. The whole thing was a delightful image dialogue of abstract thought. Anyway, awesome job dude. We miss your poetic words. RIP

  • Renegade Hobo
    December 26, 2003
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    A little short, but beautifully abstract. It was a little slow, but I found myself smiley a few times.

    ~'Chelle

  • Zack Rearick
    September 14, 2003
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    Hmmm...I am needlessly impressed.I adore the first sentence,which is,sadly,almost half of the whole piece.If I can make one colmplaint about this convulted,congealing piecem,it's that it ended before I was ready for it to.

  • Redstormy
    September 8, 2003
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    Well this is delightfully abstract. I love the succinct form. I believe less is more. You did a wonderful haunting job with this write.

    Red