I paid the predeparture pcr test required, setting me back 287 dollarydoos and something cents after tax. I waited half an hour in a portable cubicle beside the hospital, tapping out some rhythms. Maybe I'll pick up drumming next, keeping time comes naturally to me.
I watched from one of the many windows, a black kot walk into the lobby of the centre, blocking part of the doors and remaining cosy. I felt envious how carefree this kot behaved. It doesn't need to worry about much more than basic amenities to keep it supposedly content.
My examiner walked in and at this moment he questioned me about the 72 window of time needed and how there's no refund, then looked at my phone charger held by my left hand. He asked me to move closer to the bench littered with cups of packaged utensils and it flashed by my mind earlier to pocket some of the swabs out of frustration towards the hospital's greedy costs.
When I walked over to the plastic lawn chair, the short, bald, effeminate doctor took a step back as I approached nearer and his face flushed crimson red beneath the circular frames giving him an air of maturity and intelligence.
I sat down, and he jettisoned towards the bench in his orange medical garb. Questions flowed from him. When am I leaving, do I have a ticket yet, how was my stay in nz, and so on and so on. My answers were curt, and one reply as he was jotting down my email became condescending. "I presume you know how to spell x." "Yes...thank you," he replied.
I chortled and realised I was being pessimistic and rude at a man, like everyone in the area, who were doing their job under the new centralised pressures of government and committees who've lost part of their sanity from fear.
The next step was the swab. He returned my passport and asked me if I consent to the test. It was unusual, but maybe this man a pederast and felt a some sort of eroticism from penetrating my nasal cavity. I leaned my head back, pushed my singular nuisance dread as far left as it could and opened my mouth to obey the instructions of the beet red doctor with eyes that were smiling too much now. It was fairly alright, slightly pleasurable until the swab scraped my mucosal walls, and quickly fled from the scene.
After encapsulating the swab, the doctor asked me what I thought of it. I giggled that it was enjoyable, better than the cost of the ten second procedure but I couldn't piece together the other emotion that arrived with the irritating sting that made my right eye water. Maybe this was what being raped felt like. My rapist seemed content with the answer, still blushing madly and began binning his garb. He wished me good luck on my travels, and I walked back to town without shaking his hand.
On my way to town I saw a few of the local schizos wandering aimlessly. It's their witching hour and worse, the full moon is out, capitulating their madness again to another night of pleasure seekers and drunkards, and the services providing, but also keeping guard of their well being.
I'm 2k down from all the costs and still haven't heard back from anyone about the will. Winter is fast approaching in Canada and I'm unsure what to do besides relapse smoking weed and readjust to a pandemic stricken community Ill find myself in again as an outsider and weirdo.