❦
You're right, Tammie.
'There's no conspiracy!
'Nobody died!''
She smiles,
apologetic
because she's tired.
I tell her
what Asher said,
I'm so excited
I don't give her time
to comment
before I say again,
'So Tammie,
'let's think about our future!'
❦
It's after medicine time.
Tammie's squeezed
into my bed,
her smelly breath filling up
the inside of the thin blanket.
It's not cold
but Tammie likes
the feeling of the blanket
over our heads.
I've spent the whole day
thinking of possibilities.
It's difficult,
because I've
never thought of the future
seriously
before.
It was never
a possibility.
My life
had already gone down the drain
before I was even 10 years old.
Something like
normal,
a new start,
a real future,
things like that...
I've never
thought of it.
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