long grass
wet from the night rain
animated dreams
© Rachel Green August 2024
A&E Thursday Night
Nine PM and it's packed
like a pub serving the last pint
at the end of the world,
The walking dead.
The wounded.
The desperate.
A No Smoking area outside the doors
filled with smokers, vapers, drinkers
(no cans allowed inside)
and two police officers with a bald white dude,
his head and chest covered in blood
you know is somebody else's.
A woman, heroin thin, says something as I pass
but I can't hear her over another woman
shouting down her mobile phone.
"It's an eight hour wait, lovey," she says
seeming to relish the misery this news incites,
"They've no staff on duty 'til the morning."
© Rachel Green August 2024
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