Harry Harlow was a trail-blazer in 1930 he began

Research on rhesus monkeys,

Baby monkeys, he'd take them from their

Mothers and put them in

Isolation chambers for maybe two years to

Learn about dependency needs and

Maternal separation they

Emerged intensely disturbed which

Was too bad after reading about it

I'd feel sorry for the monkeys and the

Chimps that were injected and

Infected with all sorts then tested and

Cut up, yet scientists said

Human health was at stake

It was one of those things I'd rather not think about

Ninety years on we've progressed its us

Strapped down in a new laboratory a very

Big laboratory its a grander sort of

Social isolation Harry would be

Proud of, where millions get

Infected and thousands are sacrificed

Daily, and they try experimental treatments of course

Like the rest I'm waiting to be injected but, with

It being closer to home, I'm having to

Think a lot about such things we're the

Monkeys now