The Clinic
The Clinic Please sit here on the bench, I will bring you the number for the consultation shortly, and when your turn comes, the professor will call you into the office. Waiting can sometimes be suspended above us, tied to us with something rigid, like the toilet float. Then we wait for someone to trigger the mechanism that will drain all that waiting over our heads, trickling over our eyes, arms, and chest, inside and out, to announce that it is time to slide into the unexpected and to completely forget, in the next moment, about suspension, rigidity, and the float. Other times, waiting is jagged, angular, and damp,…
