PENKNIFE

i want to share a poem i just uploaded. it’s a poem i’ve had hanging around for years on this long taped-together fold-out. I don’t know what it means, nor what possessed me to write it, make it, to research it and to cut it up and tape it all together, but here we have it. It’s an epic diognostic, a shopping list of things to avoid, a dictionary of illness, repulsion spell, a doctor’s litany.