Urgent Care

Young X-ray technician
Struggles to grow a meaningful mustache
Positions me for pictures of my lungs
Jokes about my birthday
4-20
Knowing chuckle
Risky gambit
I smile
Give him comfort
Yeah
But we didn't call it that back then
He's genuinely puzzled
Surprised
Really?
What'd ya call it?
Weed
It doesn't seem to satisfy him
Quaint, corny
Accents our age difference
He laughs anyway
I struggle for breath

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