18 LEMUR THE EIGHTEENTH BOUARFA, MOROCCO (JASMIN, 13 years old)
Infirmary for organic non-matter.
Half past six.
You can hear tin banging against tin.
You know it’s a plate falling on a metal cupboard.
You lift your heavy lids.
You can see a female face.
The female face bends over you.
A female hand sticks a spoonful of rice porridge into your mouth.
Your lips spread open with great effort.
Half the porridge falls out.
Female hands remove the covers routinely.
Female hands lift your nightgown.
Female hands take off your soaked diapers.
Female hands wipe you with a wet towel, and then put on new, clean diapers. Female hands cover you.
The female face disappears.
The murmurs of the day melt into an indeterminable and with time more and more insignificant whole. Now you can ha
