Office hours

The harsh blocks of buzzing light illuminate the ceiling like a Michael Jackson video. The silence sits on top of a bed of the sound of air conditioning smugly humming. Water bubbles in school canteen jugs with blue lids which laugh at the scratched brown tables. The window frames slit the walls, their hinges jut out like dinosaur heads looking on and cackling at the theatre.
Everyone is suffocated by the low synthetic ceiling and magnolia walls and eagerly watch the red second hand tick by.
Click, click, click, click, click....Rustle, rustle, rustle, rustle.....
Too shy to talk and too scared to whisper, everyone laughs nervously at in-jokes and smirks at one another.
Sniff, sniff.....
The grey machine looks on and winks its green eye at me.
ssssss, sh, sh, sh , sssss...
Black suits and grey, sullen faces. Just children playing grown up.