"My Mind Is Not My Friend"

I've been told by more than one
My mind is not my friend.
To happy endings and pleasantries
It never seems to bend.
Disaster lurks, a shoe must fall.
The worst is where it leads me.
Thoughts of gloom, impending doom
It eagerly force feeds me.
In vivid technicolor
Surround-sound 3-D view
Detailed 360 scenarios
Play non-stop, without cue.
Think, think, think is not for me.
I think my thinker's broken.
No wonder that the shrink I see
Won't settle for a token!

msp
11/10/01