Chapter 22:
Something's Not Right
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How many days has it been?
My bedroom
is curtained
on three walls,
blank
on the fourth
so I can't tell the time.
They stop bringing food
after the third day
so I've lost track
of how long
it's been.
Tammie doesn't seem to leave
at regular intervals,
and I sleep a lot
because of the injections
so I can't tell
the time at all.
We don't talk much—
Tammie and I—
when I'm awake and she's here.
After that first conversation,
there doesn't seem to be
anything else
worth discussing.
One day
(or night),
I open my eyes.
Tammie's not in her chair.
The movement
that made me open my eyes
was not hers.
A nurse,
familiar to me,
short bob hair,
plain passive face,
bends over the bed
and loosens
my leather straps.
Like a bird
caged for too long,
I'm...
not sure
what to do
with myself.
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