platonic relationships

have you ever had a platonic
relationship
with a woman, my therapist asks
me.
her ball point pen clicking on
her long chin.

what's that, i ask her.

you know, she says, writing something
down on her yellow
legal pad.

a friendship with the opposite
sex where
there was no romance involved.

you mean no kissing, no nothing.
no sex?

wow, i say. is that humanly possible?

yes, she says no sex.

of course, i tell her, laughing,
i'm just joshing
you, pulling your leg.

I've had many platonic relationships,
neurotic ones too.
in fact name a type and I've probably
been there.

she stops writing and looks out
the window, then the clock.
she seems weary, exhausted,
only forty minutes
to go.