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Shimmy Feintuch, LCSW

March 31st, 2017

I should write something

I can do this well

I should write something

I can do this.

Well

I should write something

so well

that they will ask me who wrote it

and then be surprised when

they find out that I did

I should write something

I should

I haven’t, yet

But the shoulds continue

They go on and on stuck in their vicious voice

Vicious voice! Nice alliteration.

That’s pretty clever.

I should focus

It’s like this now.

I am here with this.

I can notice.

The shoulds are here

I should notice them.

I shouldn’t should so much, should I?

There goes my mind again.

Come on back, mind.

It’s like this now.

Shimmy Feintuch, LCSW CASAC-G maintains a private practice in Brooklyn, NY, and Washington Heights, NYC, with specialties in addictions and anxiety. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work at Yeshiva University. Contact: (530) 334-6882 or shimmyfeintuch@gmail.com.

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