TE15 Lithuanian Honey Cake

Undinė Radzevičiūtė

I ask my psychiatrist if he’s seen the Woody Allen film with Woody Allen where Woody Allen is telling a girl that he goes to a psychiatrist. “You see a psychiatrist?” asks Woody Allen’s girl to Woody Allen. “Well, yes, but only for fifteen years. I’ll go for another year or so and quit.” “Are you leaving me?” asks my psychiatrist. “Yes, but I think only temporarily, until I find some new problems.

If this were a conversation with an ordinary man, it would go like this:

“You’re leaving me?” “Yes.” “And you won’t come back?” “No. You have too many problems.” They always say that.

In such cases I close myself up in the bathroom for a

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