PREAMBLES
This couple lean and worn in who never
leave their home town have travelled wait not so patiently for the next stage
They’d just be having breakfast around now and another three hours to go Some
flick magazines young men poke at the net send texts one up very late stretches
yawns lolls low on one elbow he might as well lie down Others stare ahead for a
long time you wonder what each is facing A daughter attempts cheeriness her
mother one foot in a velvety slipper one in dressings as white as eighty-five
year old hair She slumps now in her wheelchair The vascular team arrives a leggy
registrar poses giraffe-like is excited to be in the theatre gets to watch over
shoulders might get to hitch a stitch or two
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