Down the shabby hallway; dingy white wall hallway

Shuffling slippers march in order

March in order

To the day room; the steel case pill room

They all get a plastic cup with pills

green, pink, yellow...rainbow pills

Swallow with water...did you swallow?

Turn about to shuffle back

Down the hallway; shuffling hallway

Shuffling slippers, eyes blinking, throat drying

Each to a room or two to a room

Same rooms, blue rooms, barren rooms

Steel rail bed, hard bed, one dresser

Rooms of quiet despair, blue rooms

No books, no sharp implements, steel rooms

Sitting rooms, waiting rooms, waiting for the  buzzer

Then the march begins again...