moving vein

fluid in the blink of an eye. limbs are dead. smell of pie. pick up a dead arm and throw it there. got to switch off the alarm. rubber foot, fluid released. she's too old for this. instructions marked there, biro'd and flicked. gossip queen flinched. how to make a career out of meddling? cover blown...by me sitting there. pretending not to listen. now the vein is moving in an aging hand.