A Picker of Nits Two
by Mindie Kniss
by Michael Elliott
Did you mean to do that
Well, I did it
But did you intend to
I must have
It was me who did it
But do you recall if you chose to do it
I recall
What
Doing it
And how did it come from you
What do you mean
Literally, how did you do it
What was the process
You mean was I angry
I don’t know
Was that it
Did you act out of anger
What was the source of the act
I was hurt
There it is
You acted out of hurt
Why didn’t you just tell me that
I didn’t know
Until you told me
Michael Elliott is a clinical psychologist. His graduate work was at California State University, San Francisco and University of Washington. His training was in the social psychology of human communication and in clinical psychology. He has practiced clinical psychology for over a quarter of a century. The poems in his book, Waterfalls of Therapy, are about what he has learned from his patients.
