Waiting for the people to come out and show me.
They were inside, a room I’d never entered, and I was waiting.
After a long clock-ticking time, the first of them appeared, holding their robes as if they were all they possessed.
A woman, another, a man and then a small child.
Robes are as old as the hills or as new as the tailor can make them.
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