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The Krafft-Ebing Poems

Bill Yarrow

Case #106
when she was about ten years old
    she thought that her mother no longer loved her

so she put matches in her coffee
    to make herself sick

that she might thus excite
    her mother’s affection for her

Case #88
on account of his impotence
    the patient applied to Dr. Hammond

who treated his epilepsy
    with bromides

and advised him
    to hang a boot over his bed

imagine his wife to be a shoe
    and to look at it fixedly during intercourse

Case #8
    as a child he was not affectionate
and was cold toward his parents

    as a student he was peculiar
and retiring, preoccupied with self

    he was well endowed mentally and given to much reading
but eccentric after puberty

    alternating between religious enthusiasm
and materialism

    now studying theology
now natural sciences

    at the university his fellow students
took him for a fool

    for he read Jean Paul
almost exclusively

Case #89
on his marriage night
    he remained cold

until he brought to his aid
    a picture

of an ugly woman’s head wearing a night cap
    whereupon coitus was immediately successful

Case #36
    she must stand at the window
awaiting him with her face done up

    and on his entrance into the room
complain of severe toothache

    he is sorry for her
asks particularly about the pain

    takes the cloth off
and puts it on again

    he never touches her
yet finds complete sexual satisfaction in this act

Case #55
on their wedding night
    he forced a towel and soap into her hands

and without any other expression of love
    asked her to lather his chin and neck as if for shaving

the inexperienced young wife did it
    and during the first weeks of married life

was not a little astonished to learn
    the secrets of marital intimacy in this way alone

Case #102
    the patient in a circle of erotic ideas
grows more and more peculiar

    he avoids the society
of women

    associates with them
only for the sake of music

    and only when two witnesses
are with him

Case #83
his dreams are filled
    with aprons

 

This poem appears in Incompetent Translations and Inept Haiku (Cervena Barva Press 2013) and Blasphemer (Lit Fest Press 2015).

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