Learning To Deal With Us As Though We Were Machines

learning to deal with us as though we were machines

takes many years of study, so it seems.

it helps to have a background in the sciences.

learning to throw us over the cliffs

while simulating friendship, home and hearth

whatever we could imagine as the safest place to be

takes much finesse. don't bring a clipboard, smile.

ask personal questions.

whole schools exist and just for this

though they cry: under funded.

we are the underserved at best,

the students who think for ourselves

a little distressed. but they'll fix that, won't they?

they mimic kindness

calling us this.

we, who used to have our own names

before we came here.

mary angela douglas 31 january 2015