i told him i thought it was funny how much of our lives we spend waiting, in rooms waiting to be herded, and the receptionist at the doctor's office is suddenly a border collie, waiting to get us all into the pen, trying to keep us all quiet as if the difference between us and animals was our ability to listen. but the truth was, he never listened. he told me he wasn't an animal, as if that had been the point.
i told him i thought it was funny how much of our lives we spend waiting, in rooms waiting to be herded, and the receptionist at the doctor's office is suddenly a border collie, waiting to get us all into the pen, trying to keep us all quiet as if the difference between us and animals was our ability to listen. but the truth was, he never listened. he told me he wasn't an animal, as if that had been the point.
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