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
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