Counselor in the Cubicle at the Crisis Center

 Counselor in the Cubicle at the Crisis Center

I already know everything there is to know about everything.
Isn't that what you always say?
We all pitched in and bought you the listening device
we saw for 9.95 on t.v., but you aren't using it,
You already know everything there is to know
about everything & that means you never
have to listen again.
I know you have an anxiety disorder & how it sits
on your chest like a heart attack waiting to happen.
How it mimics every fear & whispers doom, doom,
but we cannot sympathize if you are hidden
in a long stream of words to blanket yourself with delusions.
When the phone rings in your cubicle, you say, cut to the chase,
and then you stomp the caller into a corner of long winded,
long running advice, until all you can hear
of the person calling in, the person with a crisis, is the sound
of your own voice smoothing down your ears.
The real crisis here is finding a way, to keep you,
from sending the next abused, suicidal, hungry, or
terminally ill person, into a gratitude for the next world,
just to escape the way you say, that you know everything
there is to know about everything.

Reviews

[Calypso]

Some counselor don't give a hoot, I know my school counselors don't.

[Donald Meikle]

been to the post office lately?

[Creepy Swine Guy]

Talk about mismatched to a career. I wonder what career WOULD suit such a person. What person or company or endeavor would benefit from the person who knows everything and is more than willing to alert you that he or she knows everything. And yet ... they seem to sprout like dandelions on an august lawn.

I wonder how that is.

[Emily B]

My first foray into the mental health field left an acrid taste. Almost decided the depression was preferable. . . it's too bad counselors aren't tested on personality.

You've penned it very well.