Mondays are a learning curve

Mondays are my volunteer days at the Clinic.  I am there from 9 to 5:30.  At the Clinic I learn a whole new way of keeping charts and treatment plans.  I learn new clients.  Here there are different rules, different settings for different rules.  Here I have to fill out progress notes which say that we worked on Goal number one, objective number one.  Mondays are a learning curve.  In comparison, the rest of the week is a water slide.

Mondays are a learning curve.

I don*t know who will come,

Who will cancel

Because of a possibly phantom

Earache.

I learn treatment plans,

Updates to treatment plans,

Progress notes with a newly-acquired

Provider number.

I am now a number;

My work can be entered

Into the system.

Mondays are still

A learning curve.

Every Monday

I find myself in the neon-lit office

Of the old motel

Next to the car wash.

By the end of most sessions

I come up with

Directly applicable

Homework.

Yet Mondays are still

A learning curve.

The rest of the week

Is a waterslide

From there.