my therapist, the/rapist

how many questions

do you want answered

these are statements

facts

periods at the end of

each sentence

and yet,

the hand holds the knife

prying at the edges of

this hermetically sealed

head,

a beggar starving for

food from the can

or

am i the whore

paying you

for this night

lying here vulnerable,

your favorite position

between

the answer... NO

and the next probing

question

when will you be

satisfied

when you say,

  time’s up

or,

  that’s all the time

  we have today