Category Archives: Health

Personal Hygiene

Posted on April 17, 2018 by sputterpub

I’m in the bathtub every Thursday eve. The water’s always hotter than I meant, so I don’t soak as much as sweat, and leave the bath with scant a quarter hour spent. The first of every month I wash my … Continue reading →

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Hands

Posted on April 16, 2018 by sputterpub

At 16 years I knew a girl whose hands were soft and still at rest. She seemed serene, and she became the image I command when I attempt to wipe my worry clean. A year ago I started spending days … Continue reading →

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Quiet Hands

Posted on April 5, 2018 by sputterpub

The mother was the opposite of calm. She fidgeted with antsiness and stress, and never showed her children either palm except to slap or signal Stop. Unless the mother slept, her fingers weren’t still. She picked non-stop – her little … Continue reading →

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Cough

Posted on March 19, 2018 by sputterpub

I cough too much. When I was 21, I had bronchitis in a rugged place. The meds were harsh – before the course had run, they diagnosed pneumonia in my case. And ever since, each cold becomes complex. The coughing … Continue reading →

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Pachyderm

Posted on February 19, 2018 by sputterpub

She drinks a quart of vodka every night, except when she de-toxes with a fast confined to juice or celery – the right and wrong are rules she buys that never last. Imbibing till she passes out, she wakes to … Continue reading →

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Recidivism

Posted on February 12, 2018 by sputterpub

I knew a girl who struggled for good skin. Her face broke out no matter what she tried of products for the outside; for within, she never ate foods sugary or fried. Until a doctor found her allergies, and she … Continue reading →

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Status Quo

Posted on February 1, 2018 by sputterpub

You all declare you’re normal but you’re weird. You look around at others, diagnose behaviors as autistic that appear to differ from your own. You’re weighing gross criteria when subtle is the game, and every trait’s a spectrum or a … Continue reading →

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Body Lesson

Posted on January 30, 2018 by sputterpub

I had a haircut yesterday. The chair was pumped to handy height, and I conversed as commas fell. I like the people there and thought I was relaxed, at least at first, but when my stylist placed a steady palm … Continue reading →

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Benefits

Posted on January 29, 2018 by sputterpub

Three years ago, I gave up eating sweet desserts, nocturnal snacks of chocolate bites, and gourmet cookies too. I rarely cheat- ed that proscription, based on what indicts the party line: the anti-science Plate. Amazingly, I didn’t feel a lack. … Continue reading →

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The Reason Not

Posted on October 19, 2017 by sputterpub

I could have set the cheesecake to defrost at 8 p.m. and tasted it by 9: 15, but that would mean I would have lost the benefit of buffering its fine- milled carbohydrate with protective fat. A cheesecake’s best preceded … Continue reading →

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