Browsing Category In Sickness and In Health
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Sphincters I Have Known and Lost
“You want to hear about all the times I’ve had tubes shoved up my penis?” There’s a sentence I never thought I would ever speak or write to ...
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T E A R S
for Bree Cameron In the Year and Era of Our Quarantine Your tears wander the vacant streets at night, One fluvial wet footstep at a time Desolate & ...
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Song at the End of the Mind
I think of you as a radio frequency— sometimes hard to find as I touch the illuminated dial. But tonight you arrive murmuring into my ear ...
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Intensive Care
No figures here but pulse, breath and pressure; no metonymy of fate but a real hand cold upon a real sheet. What could any actor speak more piercing ...
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Your Fire and Thunder
-for Dr. Li Wenliang They muzzled your warning — the virus spread. It killed you, killed the family of generations, and killed those delaying ...
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Clueless Jogger Manifesto in the Age of Social Distancing
I am a jogger, an outside-only jogger. Outside I am moving so quickly that I cannot calculate six feet between myself and slowpokes who walk. I keep moving. ...
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I’m Trying to be a Person
I’m Trying to be a Person on whom nothing is lost. I have ruined several custards with scalding impatience. Not a good ...
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In Sickness and In Health 3
“Find Everything You’re Looking For?”
Despite the naysayers among my family and friends, I decided to see what was happening in retail. I’d always wanted to sell things when I was a kid. ...
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Widow
God, You carry this device in my chest called love & I – a child of infertility – choose you to sterilize the left testicle of intimacy ...
