Hypnotic poetry

I recently started a group on HypnoThoughts dedicated to discussing hypnosis and poetry, and wouldn’t you know it but the topic has been coming up more often in other discussion threads there now. Kinda.

As an example, there’s a thread discussing and debating the desirability of making people fanatics about the changes they’ve made through hypnosis, with a lot of people cautioning against it because of the negative connotations of the word. And that’s a valid point. However, hypnosis is partly about reframing. Changing “My husband snores and it bothers me” to “My husband snores and I feel good because I know he’s there, alive and with me,” for example. 

That reminded me of a poem I wrote a few years ago for a poetry challenge at Wild Poetry Forum. The challenge was to write a poem in praise of something society viewed as evil or undesirable. We had a specific model to follow (a poem someone else had written doing exactly that). Here’s the poem I wrote (after the break):

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