<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=451943" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Swollen Tortoise</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">We happily conversed while you experimented, <br>I promised myself I won't take a bite as you added <br>beef stock to curry, when I refused you insisted, it <br>should be safe - now I'm awake, a small fire in my <br>intestines reminding me why my world is so small</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Step over the line of eating restriction and pay the <br>price, I can't sleep at all, listening to Tiaan's restless <br>pacing indicates he shares my fate; can't close my <br>eyes, can't lie down, the floor does not offer any <br>respite - I'm convicted by my own choice to </div><div style="margin:10px 0">eat things my system cannot process - I resemble <br>Ionesco's rhinoceros, feeling like a swollen tortoise*, <br>I read multiple personalities react differently to stimuli <br>depending on which one occupies the body - I wish <br>I had another me, like the three faces of Eve - to </div><div style="margin:10px 0">change my chemical set-up, the only effect change <br>has is varied feelings - from terribly depressed to <br>totally ecstatic - yet my body remains the same <br>oversensitive seismograph - making me wish <br>for separation of body and mind </div><div style="margin:10px 0">As soon as possible…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">16/02/2012</div><div style="margin:10px 0">*or a beached whale - whichever comes first…</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Margaret+Alice+Second">Margaret Alice Second</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=451943" data-title="A Swollen Tortoise de Margaret Alice Second" data-description="We happily conversed while you experimented, I promised myself I won't take a bite as you added beef stock to curry, when I refused you insisted, it should be safe - now I'm awake, a small fire in my intestines reminding me why my world is so ..."></div> </div> </div>

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