Right now, my mother is in the hospital again.She was apparently staying with a friend in Mississippi and verbally attacked her housekeeper before having a seizure. She also apparently…Aug 26, 2023Aug 26, 2023
Diagnosing MotherI put this drawing/flowchart up on twitter. It is about my mother and her mother and the ways in which they make everything about…Jul 19, 2023Jul 19, 2023
Diagnosing MotherRight now, my mother is somewhere between Colorado and Kentucky, driving her car, disoriented, and probably stoned. I haven’t spoken to her…May 14, 2023May 14, 2023
Complex PartialFirst, you have to understand that there are not things in the world like cars and beds and dressers and you and me. There are not colors…Jan 23, 2023Jan 23, 2023
The Pain Box“The pain scale measures only the intensity of pain, not the duration. This may be its greatest flaw. A measure of pain, I believe…Nov 20, 2022Nov 20, 2022
Pain BodyThe pain body is similar to the body, but its geography is different, its scale. The pain places are large, loud. The pain feet (when they…Aug 29, 2021Aug 29, 2021
Her Real Name“I saw Cottonball the other day,” you laugh a little and this is not how I want this to go, but I don’t know her real name and I don’t know…Jul 17, 2021Jul 17, 2021
Us, ProbablyI dreamed I was on a spaceship powered by a virtual black hole. Its/our speed was sometimes (but never and always quite) the speed of light…Jun 11, 2021Jun 11, 2021
What would a pain language look like?The aching would be the terrible drone of wailing mourners, the white hot broken place that’s cool to the touch. The written words would…Apr 18, 2021Apr 18, 2021