“Duh-Smiley” once said:
“I know you like hats, so I brought you some hats.”
[Her “hat” looked different.]
She was writing a college paper on mental health.
[I was her topic.]
I did not care when those, of whom, were “learning”
A new trade came into the room.
[My “lonely-child”
Turned “isolation”
Was her sub-topic.]
So, “we” kept it up;
[She did not “know” my “own trade”,
So, that’s when “the behaviorist” came into play.]
A woman, of whom, I had “seen behind a glass”,
Once, “like being behind a window” was there,
Again, when I went to college.
[All that I had needed was “one good look”,
And she was back.]
I “took three steps back for every [three] step[s] forward”.
And I had “passed the[/her] psychology class”.
But I will “never forget”
How I was “Treated”
By That School.
AND: “By the professionals”, of whom,
Called it “Social Isolation”
In Other Classrooms.
©2026Ellen Finn
Feb 2
Feb 2, 2026 at 9:50 PM UTC
“Duh-Smiley” once said:
“I know you like hats, so I brought you some hats.”
[Her “hat” looked different.]
She was writing a college paper on mental health.
[I was her topic.]
I did not care when those, of whom, were “learning”
A new trade came into the room.
[My “lonely-child”
Turned “isolation”
Was her sub-topic.]
So, “we” kept it up;
[She did not “know” my “own trade”,
So, that’s when “the behaviorist” came into play.]
A woman, of whom, I had “seen behind a glass”,
Once, “like being behind a window” was there,
Again, when I went to college.
[All that I had needed was “one good look”,
And she was back.]
I “took three steps back for every [three] step[s] forward”.
And I had “passed the[/her] psychology class”.
But I will “never forget”
How I was “Treated”
By That School.
AND: “By the professionals”, of whom,
Called it “Social Isolation”
In Other Classrooms.
©2026Ellen Finn
