<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=577182" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Maintenance Of Bodies</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">there is so much involved in the maintenance of bodies...<br>the greasy hospital sheets, <br>doctors on switch-shifts<br>mortgaging their own happy hours, <br>cold and endless bathroom steel<br>and the carving-out feeling<br>of surgical howls, <br>the basement below filled with<br>blackened limbs.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">then there is<br>the ripping, tearing, bloodiness<br>of newborn pain—<br>a welcome shot of reality when<br>that needle bangs and clatters to the floor...<br>I could revel all night in the irony of<br>incompetence.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">so much done to save as much surface area<br>of skin<br>as possible, <br>to reduce the scars<br>and poultice the bleeding<br>hearts and minds and soft, soft feeling of<br>defeat, so many</div><div style="margin:10px 0">words left<br>dripping off the railings that are holding me in this bed, <br>so much work slung at<br>trying to survive<br>the wounds, <br>the wailings of a scared, blonde-haired little girl, <br>eyes reddened and blood-streams pouring over her eyes, <br>just calling out, <br>just crawling in—</div><div style="margin:10px 0">so much time and energy involved<br>in the maintenace of bodies, <br>it makes us sick.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jae+Jae">Jae Jae</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=577182" data-title="The Maintenance Of Bodies de Jae Jae" data-description="there is so much involved in the maintenance of bodies... the greasy hospital sheets, doctors on switch-shifts mortgaging their own happy hours, cold and endless bathroom steel and the carving-out feeling of surgical howls, the basement below ..."></div> </div> </div>

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