the beginning

The nurse watched.
The teenage girl came in
On a stretcher.
She knew the beginning of the story.
“Goin out with some friends mum”,
She would say back to the now injured
“When will you be back”?
“Tomorrow”.
“Where are you sleeping”?
She smiled,
And the nurse knew the joke now.
She wouldn’t be sleeping.
The teenage girl answered
By saying a made up friends name
And saying the friend had no home phone
That it was broken.
The joke was,
That the teenage girl
Wouldn’t be sleeping.
They would find an act,
That would take up the dark hours
Where no one could see.
“Hey,Can I take this one”?Asked the nurse.
“We’re a bit full here”,Said another nurse.
“Then take one off”!
“Look”.
“No, I NEED to mind this girl”!
“I…ok”.
“Alone”.The assigned nurse looked at her strangely.“I said alone” said the unassigned nurse.
“…ok, she can take care of her. Everyone go”.
And so the nurse took the girl away
To a private room
And stroked her daughter’s hair.
“Oh baby,What have I done to you this time”?
The nurse suggested
Alcohol poisoning
But the mother in her
Knew better.
This was the beginning,Of the story.