Well, our time is up, said my shrink with a wink.
Our little session certainly went in a blink.
You’ve talked about the people but they’re all in the past,
And it’s good that you let it all out at last.
But it’s all ancient history,
Like L.P. Hartley* says, it’s a foreign country.
The future out there is what’s paramount.
Life is short, so make it count.
You certainly do things differently here, I ventured.
* “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
(Opening line in The Go-Between, L.P. Hartley, 1953.)
© 2020 S Phua
This is a witty, wry and well crafted poem! Kudos to you for incorporating the prose line so well into your poem! I am a rhyming couplet kind of gal and loved the rhyme scheme and humour of the first couple of lines. Well done! And, well played!
Clever poem, I enjoyed it!
Well done with the sentence. Retooling it to a therapists’s office seems wickedly apropos to the line. Enjoyed this one very much.