How have you been feeling? Been

exercising? Staying healthy?

She asks

On Monday I ate

a MetroCard for breakfast

I say

I found it facedown

grounded into the asphalt

slid it down my throat

in a 7/11 bathroom stall

where a dime was caught

between

the cracked

blue tiles

You’ve been sleeping okay?

She asks

I stacked 4 pregnancy tests

a piña colada slurpee

a postcard of a goose

on the metal counter

and ate the dime too

I felt heavy

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In the waiting room half

way through a magazine

a two page spread

“What to do with perennials in the snow”

which I tore out and kept

What do u need that for anyways?

A man asks

It’s almost April

He says

I know

I say

I know for sure

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It’s finished now. Do you feel okay?

She asks

My name is Patty

She says

Isn’t the weather awful this week?

She asks

But it should clear up soon

She says

I know

I say

I know