Reflections from far mland

Thursday, March 22, 2007

elevator moments

she said "smile! somebody smile for God's sake!"
and they wheeled her out of the elevator, this crunched beleaguered haggard woman on a bed of wheels who looked at us like we were freaks carrying our 16 ounce styrofoam cups of Nescafe
and he looks at me with his curly ruffled hair
and i look at him with my arrested smile, waiting..
'you know it's bad when patients are telling us to smile.."
and we laugh and we laugh and we laugh, and i don't know who he is and he has no clue, not one clue who i am
what the hell, we'll probably meet in the elevator again.

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