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Freud, according to Jones,
Volume Three, page 297,
Was wont to say, upon parting
“Goodbye, you may never see me again.”
He might as well have asked,
“Have you ever seen me?”
Despite his twenty-four volume oeuvre
And thousands of letters,
He remained an enigma
To his Yiddish-speaking mother,
Who announced at his seventieth birthday celebration,
“I am the mother,” as though his world renown
Was a metaphor for the caul
With which her womb enveloped him at birth.
While Jones, beardless and Welsh,
All but ran to keep up with