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Compulsion

Mel Waldman

    “Doc, I keep having this crazy-freaky dream in which I kill this stranger.”
    “Tell me the whole dream,” the shrink commands.
    “It’s real vague, doc. I’m lost in this mansion, rushing from room to room in search of something or someone. And when I enter the 13th room, I find him. He looks familiar but I don’t recognize him.”
    A vast silence separates the doctor and patient. Eventually, the patient breaks the silence and speaks.
    “The stranger wants to tell me something. He mutters a few words and...before he finishes the sentence, I shoot him, blowing his brains to Kingdom Come. What does it mean, doc?”
    “According to Freud, each dream represents a wish or fear.”
    “Don’t think I wished to kill him. I wanted to hear what he had to say. But I was compelled...!”
    “Perhaps, you were afraid to hear his insights.”
    “No, doc, not afraid. Just disgusted!”
    And in a flash, he shoots the shrink who resides at 1301 River Side Drive in Manhattan. Standing over the fresh corpse, he says: “Like everyone I cared about, you disappointed me. And you see, I’ve got these evil voices in my head and they compel me to kill. Sorry, doc.”
    Afterwards, he jogs along River Side Drive Park, exorcising the demons in his head until the voices emerge in his psyche and speak again.

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