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The plain nurse comes to fetch me
during medicine time.
I keep my head
down
the whole time
so it's only afterwards that I notice
Oman
is alone.
The armchairs
are no longer in a straight line
but defiantly
disordered again,
like they were
before.
Oman looks like a new patient
sitting alone,
knees up to his chest,
head buried between,
hands locking everything in.
Trying to look like
a cushion
on the armchair.
A male nurse
stands beside him
in place of Nina.
An uncomfortable contrast—
he must have been forced
to come out
just like me.
I also pull my knees
up to my chest.
But I balance my chin
on my knees,
thinking about Nina.
Maybe Oman's not dragged out
for medicine time,
maybe
she's in a coma because of him.
You never know,
right?
People aren't always
what they seem.
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