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From: suki@reed.UUCP (Monica Nosek)
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Subject: A reception
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Date: Tue, 19-Feb-85 23:08:32 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 19 23:08:32 1985
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	A Famous Therapist Visits

Brown shoes
round and sensible.
This man walks among the damned
unscathed.
He works witchcraft,
this alchemist of souls, 
making sane men out of mad.
Warder, angel, scientist,
he culls hallucination from their skulls,
talks to Christ and Bonaparte
and chases spiders from their skins.
He hears their dreams, their fears.
Their screams take shape as monsters
or as gooks who lurk beneath the bed
and bayonet their ankles.

He says that no one really knows
where dreaming turns to madness.