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Sharon Hom's avatar

Loved this, clever, funny but uh oh. A little too recognizable😹

Warmest wishes for the holidays to you and four-legged family♥️

Lev Raphael's avatar

Written pre-AI or post- ?

X. P. Callahan's avatar

July 2023. I think that was pre-AI.

Lev Raphael's avatar

You're a visionary.

X. P. Callahan's avatar

Probably just hallucinating (see test results).

Lev Raphael's avatar

What's the dif?

B S Freeman's avatar

Wonderful. With your permission, I will spread the test around to my psychotherapy colleagues and to readers of Robert Musil.

Also, we all have families, and love them dearly, both with cost and affection.

pamm hanson's avatar

Well this is brilliant !!! I have read it three times and certainly will again!! Guess you laid it all out!!! Ha. ("ha"? 🤔)

Kim Nelson's avatar

Like @Pamm Hanson below, I cannot stop reading this -- perhaps because as I do so, I catalog the diagnoses clinging to the branches of my own family tree. And because it is so freaking entertaining!!!

Janie Braverman's avatar

So funny!

This rings of hermit crab writing, where something takes on the shape of something else. The test that isn't a test, the poem that is about a test that isn't a test. Multi-layered and delightful and painful. Well done!

Ronald Drimmel's avatar

Can't fail when there's no wrong answers.. or are there? ;^)

Michael Drummond's avatar

What a harrowing journey you were on! Sounds like you need a good friend to speak with.

X. P. Callahan's avatar

Kind thought, but always assume that the poem's speaker is not the poem's author.