I've had lots of time to work on it. I think it helps to put a poem or story away for a week to a month or so - helps you edit it without bleeding too much. But that's just my opinion.

This is something I wrote for myself, a way of getting my frustrations out about counselors and therapists who say they're listening but aren't really. Something Fun He sits behind a big oak desk, Puffing on a pipe. He says he’s going to help me, Now isn’t that a fright? For I have seen the picture ...