Walking to Africa by Jessica Le Bas

Author:Jessica Le Bas [Le Bas, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781869405311
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Published: 2011-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

If things don’t improve soon

it could get to this

*

Look, it is as much as … as this …

He mimics

His hands vibrate on the arms of his chair

(a silver ring in his ear)

He doesn’t strain his muscles

Most people go home after a good cup of tea

*

She goes

You go

The angel/nurse with her plastic key goes

The psychiatrists go

You are gone.

Not the Fair Ground

Up the corridor, out the door

Past the yellow wheely bin, the laundry, the office of x y and z

Past the secretary, the wardens, the orderlies, the little bay of wheelchairs huddled like supermarket trolleys

Past the foyer with its sofas in modern fabric, its window of cherry trees in naked fits of winter. No amount of rain will bring them back this month

Past the automatic doors with their mechanical penchant for birds on the outside mat and taxi drivers rushing

Up the lift to another floor

Above the city smog where the view is grey

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