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JILL You put me in the wrong JACK I am not putting you in the wrong JILL You put me in the wrong for thinking you put me in the wrong JACK Forgive me JILL No JACK I'll never forgive you for not forgiving me In a string of what the Oxford Professor of Poetry called 'remarkable insights into the ways human beings behave to one another' R.D. Laing works out the deadly duologues that silently mar relationship. Love and hate, good and bad, hoping and fearing, wanting and getting...here are the first elements of the tortuous cat's cradles and the sad little patterns our minds are compelled to repeat. So simply, so trenchantly stated, that 75,000 copies of Knots were sold in the United States within weeks of publication.
Psychotherapist R. D. Laing's poems are distillations of the emotional and psychological knots into which people tie themselves as their relationships entangle. I think I may like these 🧶❤️🩹🪢