It's All Happening in the Aquarium

The fish - They are the fastest movers in this Oncology Day Ward Waiting Room. The rest of us, We chair-bound, Slower-motion ones, We sit and wait, Patients learning patience With time on our hands To contemplate As we sit and wait, CT scans and MRI results, Where Language becomes flexible And turned on its head Where Negative results are positive and Positive results are negative. You have to be Linguistically agile On this ward. I shared this insight With the fish, But they replied With a collective, bubbled laugh - They knew it already, of course, And wondered what took me so long...