cataract class

one of them,
I sit in the room as the
clinician
shows a film
of what will happen,
or not happen
when they lay you
down
to operate,
to surgically remove
a lens from
your eye and put a new
one in.
she speaks from the side
of the chairs
where we sit in
shadowed light.
we are partially underwater
it seems.
it's clear
she's done this before,
many times.
please hold your questions
until the end
she says, though
no one raises their hand
except to ask
where the restroom
is..