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The wheelchairs are getting a bath today a good scrubbing down like the residents get on Tuesdays and Fridays without the gooseflesh and crying Cal the building manager grips the hose the long green tail and tongue of water fervent tongue eager and quick the nozzle full-force fast enough to lick dirt and germs from twenty four spokes per chair Water is their shining raiment: black seat brown seat blue seat (three colors only) the sprays of droplets flash-flash-flash like healthy soul-sparks