Waiting

I discovered this poem in my phone’s notes app while sitting in a waiting room at a doctor’s office. I revised it a bit for today’s slice.

How many hours have I waited on
Lines
This year
2020
For food, tests, to vote
That orange horror out of office
A year of practicing
Patience

Thinking of lines
I’ve waited on before
The one
In SDQ airport
On Christmas Day
Next to a family from the US who
“Could not believe it”
But I practiced patience then
Too

Waiting in the
Examination room
At the doctor’s
Just sitting
Staring
Rereading the same posters
Over and over
Again

Waiting for an
Idea
To come to mind
Thinking of all the hours
Now days
Maybe weeks
I’ve spent waiting in
Lines