anyone else

Forehead healing. But now caught a cold. Had to go to doc’s. Asthmatic bronchitis. Doped up on drugs. Forehead in Band-Aids. You sound like a wounded rhino, says a friend. A rhino with a splintered tusk.

Hard to leave the little one with someone else. Anyone else. Why was it easier with Jackie? It was so early on, I just handed her over. I had done my job getting her out. Someone else take over now. But now it is different. Why?