Where you been?
Nima asks
train was late
I reply
the ward smells
of urine
and bodies
and nurses
disinfect
up the nose
Nima sits
in a chair
by her bed
in a white
dressing gown
her bare feet
on the floor
what'd you bring?
cigarettes
chocolate
usual stuff
I tell her
putting them
on her bed
need a drag
she utters
so we go
out of large
French windows
and sit down
in two chairs
in the grounds
we light up
cigarettes
and exhale
how's it going?
I ask her
miss my fix
and hot sex
she mutters
between drags
miss music
miss Hendrix
she looks out
at the grounds
the tall trees
the bushes
a porter
walking by
two doctors
over the way
talking loud
glad you came
she tells me
glad to come
I reply
she looks thin
her hair lank
no make up
cigarette
held between
two fingers
she tells me
her parents
didn't show
had to go
off some place
with others
Nima exhales
you know what?
they're doctors
yet don't come
to see me
I don't know
what to say
so I say
not a thing
watch a bird
swooping low
gracefully
black winged bird
with large beak
I need sex
Nima says
suddenly
I need you
inside me
her dark eyes
eat me in
no place though
I tell her
she inhales
the white smoke
blows it out
making rings
someday soon
she utters
in London
in some room
some hotel
if they let
me go out
next weekend
with a pass
let's hope so
I reply
studying
the sun's light
in her right
gazing eye.
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