XXXI | Some Space

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When it's medicine time
and I refuse to go downstairs,

the nurses
pull the blanket away
and command
that I

get out of bed.

I ask for the blanket back.

'I'll give it to you
'after you get up.'

It's a lie.

I know
because

the doors are locked
during medicine time.

The pretty nurse

notices
that I've noticed.

'I'll let you bring it downstairs.'

That's
a lame

compensation.

I get up

and let them
lead me
downstairs.

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I think of ways

to avoid
eating my medicine

while I sit in my usual armchair

with Moonlight Sonata
playing in the background.

The small boy
with the plastic ear
walks,

stops

in front of me.

'Scram,' I tell him.

He stares
at the nurses behind me,
at the ones behind him.

Gives me the finger.

Walks away.

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