TE20 Migrant Mosaics

Disappearing

MARTHA : you think I haven’t seen you top up your glass

you said just one drink and this was your third

EDGAR : we’re celebrating kathi today

KATHI : and we’re also celebrating

the non-arrival of our passports that’s cause for celebration too I’ve been thinking I’m not going anywhere what the hell am I supposed to do there they’ll put me in a retirement home straightaway to do water gymnastics with a score of old hags in polka-dot swimsuits with sagging skin and rubber swimming caps no thanks you should go because you’re young or don’t go but do make up your mind you just keep waiting for your departure to be approved and in the meantime you forget to live

For a few seconds, they’re all immersed in silence

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