My colic weighs heavy down. The space between it and gravity. Me. The pressure. The loneliness of (my) skin Sitting upon my face. How ****** are the nerve endings that must go out unto this world With me at the wheel. Muscles writhing into a smile Like snakes on fire Or slugs in salt. My eyes roll up in a possessed contort. My body, no longer. My own. I think I have figured out how one would... contract. such a disease. apathy. such a powerful thing. such a powerful thing that has haunted me for three hundred and twenty days. and twenty days before, It was the same.