occasionally, a flash of white page blankets her face like a pale Swedish summer the video stream clunks along on solipsist angles, falling, waking, back, here here pen on her tongue and I wonder where it's been, disease travels funny highways but the constant revelation of one germ after another makes the body a well-protected warzone, immunity flaunts its immunity, the pen picker probably protects the person a bit more aptly than the hand-sanitized middle-man afraid of the swine flu
blue blanket holds her shoulders like she's swimming in a lake of silly putty and her white teeth glisten because she's lucky and no one ever notices their fortune when it's so close you can't see it.