In the Waiting Room by Elizabeth Bishop
The Waiting Room is a long, ninety nine line, five stanza poem that focuses on the reaction of a young girl who, whilst waiting for her Aunt Consuelo in the dentist's waiting room, picks up a National Geographic magazine and looks at the pictures. From that moment on the poem takes the reader into the mind of this young six year old, captivated and slightly horrified by what she sees in the adult magazine.