Third floor psych ward window lookout, second from the right on the east side. Best seat available, padded, from 1934. Backrest Swingline-stapled to the faux- Maple leg support 2 x 4s. Beige bedspread, white walls blend into the door threshold that people are honeymoon'd through kicking the aids, clawing at their eyes.
But Téa sat there watching the overcast shadows sweep the sky heavily like the watercolor paintings on the group room plastic table where ******-off preteens paint Dad beating them, or Sis dying in a car crash.
Téa just sat there while the stagnant Valley tumbled dry low outside, tuning out a black patient behind her riling-up another fight with a plastic-hinged particleboard door.