Two Birds, Unexpectedly, Outside My Door

And those doves remind me how much I hate

my last therapist. How he had me hooked

to the EMDR machine, told me Dr. Whoever

made this method after watching birds fly around.

Why am I paying you then? Why don’t I just go 

watch birds for free? I think Dr. Whoever

committed the cardinal sin: caging the medicine

of birds with machines and sliding-scale therapy. 

You can’t have the medicine of birds without birds. 

And to capture birds, you must capture the whole sky

or you’ll have something much less than birds

and in this office, we have even less than that.