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Tammie peels open
that soggy
piece of paper.
There'll be
new writing
on it.
A warning
from the nurses.
In messy pencil marks,
a hanged man swings
with a cheshire cat's smile
and a speech bubble floating over his head:
HA HA HA.
The blanks
are filled with my handwriting:
S U B S T I T U T E.
Exactly
how
we left it before.
'How strange...'
Tammie's grey eyes
meet mine with a question.
What will you do now?
I shrug.
'Sleep.
'There's nothing else to do.'
We can steal
another plastic knife.
Tammie follows me
to my bedroom
even though I tell her
I really want to sleep.
She sits at
one end of the bed
and wraps my blanket
around her.
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