My grandma’s made me potato soup to get my mind off this boy who’s dumped me.
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My grandma’s made me potato soup to get my mind off this boy who’s dumped me.
Breathe in, breathe out. It hurts so much. Can't take it any longer, need to get away.
Exquisite torments merge in morning thoughts before I wake.
“911. What’s your emergency?” “I’m having a brain hemorrhage.”
I’m in the ER with a kidney stone. There’s an IV for the pain.
The tooth still aches, unbearably, then bearably, the inner workings of my own mouth gaslighting me as I mix the pancake batter.
“Sheila,” she said, looking worried. “Are you feeling ok?”
My right thumb pressed the button again to release more morphine. Covered in tubes and needles, surrounded by sounds generating persistent resonant vibration in the head, I shifted between states of consciousness …