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It is all right waiting when you have a cup of coffee and old blues music. I do not like waiting when there is no music or coffee, only the walls of the hospital.<\/p>\n

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A slow clock. A stain on the carpet. Magazines with ears like dogs. Scuffs on the walls. A slow clock, waiting, radio.<\/p>\n

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I sit in the chair, undecided. Swim or toast? Walk or stay? My indecision becomes a decision. I stay sitting in the chair, listening to the chattering sparrows, waiting for nothing.<\/p>\n

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I watch the ten past two clock. Click, click. Four small elephants stare out at me from a green table. Three heads in flower pots gaze out of the window at the shoddy May clouds. It\u2019s supposed to be spring but it feels like winter. I wait for warm days.<\/p>\n

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There is a seagull in the waiting room. I don\u2019t believe it\u2019s waiting for a train but for the scraps of chips lying here. Perhaps I am wrong and it will catch the 17.14 to Brighton, along with the baby and the woman with wings for eyes.<\/p>\n

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There is getting up to be done and the making of porridge and after, a clearing of plates but I continue to sit and stare at the flowers on the counterpane and only my breath moves.<\/p>\n

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I am waiting for the world to startle and turn in quite a different direction. Nothing is gained by waiting, you used to say. I am not so sure. Patience is a virtue, is it not? But oh, how fast this world spins.<\/p>\n

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