❦

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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