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Hey Fifi,
can I sleep here with you?
The next morning,
I wake
to the sour stench of vomit.
Moonlight Sonata
seeps through the walls.
'Good morning, Tammie,'
I say.
She smiles
without opening
her eyes.
It feels good
to wake up
to somebody
by your side.
Sunlight
streams in
relentlessly
through the curtainless window.
I'm sweaty
without even
getting out of bed.
April. May. June.
It must be
one of these months.
Seasons
don't matter
in asylums
where forgetting
is commonplace.
Zuraida,
the new patient,
isn't in the hall
standing in front of her armchair,
like last night.
The nurses must have
got her to her room
somehow.
(That explains
the screams we heard
last night.)
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