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Alice’s shaky foot is trouble
big trouble for me
plenty trouble for all of us 
her cross-legged foot shaking shakes
unnervingly shaking her foot 
because of the electric shocks 
because of the medicine
shaking shaking until you cannot tolerate the constant nervous shaking of the foot
her foot shaking shakes could have been a good lesson for me
trouble doesn’t exempt us from envy wrath pride or nervous fear
it wasn’t a good lesson because I was thinking 
not me not me
thinking 
this has nothing to do with me
I’m out of here as soon as possible
I wasn’t thinking trouble is here for all of us
as she sat shaking shaking shaking 
shaking her foot.