do not drive or operate machinery for twenty four hours

walk, package in hand, a heavy package.
Last night's work, it was late and then early, three in the morning.
All the prints dried and cut.

not cut and dried.
Packaged
and home to bed.
Turn off the alarm one hour later, silly thing.

up at eight,
doc's appointment,
go on foot

walk, package in hand, a heavy package
to the post office, first.
Wait for five minutes, until nine

The heavy package weighs eight point nine kilos
and costs twenty two Euros and ninety cents, shipping.
Pay

walk on through the town, past the market place, pass the old gaol, out towards the town gates.

There is the hospital, turn left up a long hill.
Stand in line.
Present the insurance card, say that an appointment had been made for now.

Go to the waiting room, read the garbage magazines, then go to the idoctor's room.
Talk about the risks, the dangers, endoscopology, all on an empty stomach
then another room, a bed, tubes, a thing on the finger, a blood sample taken, a botched piercing of a vein, and now there is something for sleep.

Wake up in another room, a young trainee nurse clearing up the bandages.
and upon leaving,yes a gastric infection.
take these pills on the prescription, do not drive or operate machinery for twenty four hours.