action!

a found poem

Albert Ellis
the Lenny Bruce
of psychotherapy
had a different use
for the phallus

Action, not analysis

Or, action!
he might say
adding his favored
punctuation
and maybe italics
too

lest the emphasis
remain undetected

Freud's methods
were simply too
glacial



Found in Sex, Love and the Scolding Psychotherapist in Sunday's New York Times. Mr. Ellis passed away last week.