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Treatment<br />
I walk into the office and give my name;<br />
The omega sign forms between the receptionist’s eyebrows,<br />
and she tells me,<br />
“Take a seat. We’ll call when we’re ready for you.”<br />
So I sit, and I stare;<br />
I look at my twenty-two-year-old hands<br />
and begin to wonder about<br />
pain,<br />
trying to churn out a method to just<br />
think it away;<br />
The waiting room coddles its occupants<br />
with yellowed posters and paintings of families<br />
and hands being held<br />
and cats;<br />
I stare at them, unmoved;<br />
I blink, and stare, and blink,<br />
and almost forget;<br />
There’s a poster above one bald woman’s<br />
slick head:<br />
“A Decade of Excellence”<br />
with fine print, boasting Ivy League doctors<br />
and an innovative and expensive<br />
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