Mystery Numbers

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Behind the screen

I'm shivering

Weigh ins are

Quietly tragic

With my body

Stripped down then

Clothed in a gown

That opens in

The back.

I step on the scale

Backwards, the nurse

Gives nothing away

With her impassive

Face penciling in my

Fate for the day.

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