ACCOUNT OF MY DAYS
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WONDERFUL
at the doctor's office
the sick are lining up by the fish tank
they finger the insurance cards in their pockets
and watch fins flicking at water
to maintain a stable posture
one very large very dark fish
with irregular blotches on its sides
lies so still on a fake rock
it looks like a fake rock too
its absence of movement does not betray
the fact that it is looking out at the patients
why do some of them lean on
those contraptions made of sticks?
what makes some of them cough?
it must be a signal they give to the others
to move for they do
move gently away from the ones with sticks
nature is wonderful thinks the fish