In the Rebbe’s Empty Chair 

Tending to my demons in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Dazed from too much coffee in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Inevitable assimilation in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Seeking validation in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Slowly learning to cope in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Anxious all weekend in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Burning all bridges in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Banality of banality in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Feeling deeply depressed in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Tired of myself in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Not expecting redemption in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Materialistic desires in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Blowing out Shabbos candles in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Seeing the Rebbe’s face in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Staring directly into the sun in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Choked on tears in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Shopping on Amazon in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Arranging permutations in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Obtaining massive files of data in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Fifteen years of hard drinking in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Looking through a neighbor’s little window in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Screaming in Russian in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Touching the erotic Torah in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Erasure of small self in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Humming the Rebbe’s melancholic songs in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Chewing off my nails in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Free from all that ails in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Shouting empty signifiers in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Spending cash on Shabbos in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Everything comes pouring out in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Mailing my book to influencers in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Inevitable and dark sleep in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Ideological purity in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
My teenage diaries in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Sitting in a chair in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Mouth full of garbage in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Hidden psychological structures in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Managing but not healing in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Pursued by to-dos in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Nothing behind the curtain in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Piecing together the broken tablets in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Poetic consolation in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Acceptance and forgiveness in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
My sins were part of the plan in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Life is full of mystery in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Pondering the infinite in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Optimism in spite of everything in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Staring off blankly in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Loss of my father in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Negotiating my salary in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Saying too much in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Stealing to survive in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Left alone and at peace in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Deleting lines from the poem in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Burden of having to make sense in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
No home in this world in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Letters to the editor in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Merit of the ancestors in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Dominant genetics in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Hashem sits quietly in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Blindfolded and abducted in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Developing a theory of everything in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Oodles of thoughts in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Adult gestures in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Detritus of modernity in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Final supper of tuna fish sandwich in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Settling in for an hour of YouTube in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Staying out of my head in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Requiring translation in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Buried beneath obligations in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Washing my mouth with soap in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
Visiting the Messiah in the Rebbe’s empty chair.
My life is entirely contained in the Rebbe’s empty chair.