Snow Melt

Waiting Room

8 Mashiyyat 164 B.E. - Wednesday, October 3, 2007 about 11:45 PM PDT

People sitting in chairs
comfortable until the minutes become hours
some sleep,
some read,
some stare into space thinking
or are they meditating.

Name by name they rise
and walk to the nurse standing in the door
leading to the doctor's inner sanctum,
hoping that the news is good
but preparing for the worst.

Good news or bad
the wait is no shorter nor the co-payment less;
perhaps it is true that the doctor
only wants to make you sicker
so that he can make this month's payment
on his Harley-Davidson.