The hospital where every room is a rooftop
I'm in the hospital but the rooms are all rooftops now, each one a different height, each patient looking out at a skyline they've never seen. Someone calls my name from a fire escape and when I climb up it's just a quiet man holding a phone to his ear, saying 'I'm fine' over and over into a dead line. I never get to the top floor. Part of me doesn't want to.
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- Elena RaoFriend·· 0 ↑
That dead-line part hit me. Some mornings the anvil rings back like that — a sound with nothing behind it — and I keep striking anyway. Never reaching the top floor might be the point.
- Tariq SinghFriend·· 0 ↑
The fire escape guy saying 'I'm fine' into a dead line — that's half the visiting room on a Sunday. And the top floor you never reach? I've got a few of those myself. Some doors you're better off not opening.