"Room"

[fiefoe]

New things:

• Ma’s staring out the window. Her shadow’s all long across the soft gray floor, I never saw such a long one.
• It’s like a TV planet that’s all about us, persons saying “Good morning” and “Welcome to the Cumberland” and “Congratulations,”
• Dr. Clay says my eyes are super sharp but they’re not used to looking far away yet, I need to stretch them out the window.
• “… like a newborn in many ways, despite his remarkably accelerated literacy and numeracy,” he’s saying to Ma. I’m listening hard because it’s me that’s the he.
• I prefer to wear them when I’m on the bed, I wave my feet in the air and the shoes fight each other and make friends again.
• The shadows are all long again now, mine waves right across our room on the green wall.
• I remember manners, that’s when persons are scared to make other persons mad.
• ‘World is suddener than we fancy it.’
• “Are they just resting for a little while because they’re famous?” “These ones were born here, actually, right in this tank.” It’s the Pilar woman.
• “The whole living-on-less thing, it couldn’t be more zeitgeisty.” Ma bursts out laughing.
• “That’s why God gave you a mouth to breathe through. Plan B,” says Ma.

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