Facing Nature by John Updike

Author:John Updike [Updike, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-96194-5
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2012-04-25T00:00:00+00:00

AERIE

By following many a color-coded corridor

and taking an elevator up through the heart of the hospital

amid patients with the indignant stare of parrots

from within their cages of drugs,

one can arrive at the barbershop

which the great institution keeps as a sop to the less-than mortal needs

of its captive populace, its serried ranks of pain.

Here, a marvel: a tiny room, high above Boston,

lined with Polaroid photographs of happy, shorn customers,

and the barber himself asleep in two chairs,

snoring with the tranquillity of a mustached machine.

Nor is that all: opposite me,

not ten feet away from where I stood wondering wha happened next,

a seagull on the ledge outside the windows with so dazzling a view

worried at the same problem. With his beak

he rapped at the glass. Once. Twice. Hard.

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