Day 434
The infant is six months old.
He has no mother, no father,
no one has been found yet
to take him in. The surgeons
have operated on his wound,
have kept him in the hospital
for two days. Now the hospital
has been told to evacuate; though
the doctors are staying, they are
rolling the patients out. Where
will they send him, this
six month old with no
parents? Who will there be
to hold him, soothe him? Who
will clean his wound, and with
what water?