11.26.2011

Our bodies, our problems.

I don't know what was medically wrong with this woman's arm, but one was about double the size of the other. It felt like pure fat. How does that happen to just one arm? She was blissfully unaware, and extremely cranky.

And I asked a drunk man to leave us alone at a dive bar when we were playing pool, and he didn't take the hint, so I put my arm around his shoulder and we had a talk. I regretted the way his back was made of cottage cheese curds the size of large marbles. It felt like moth-eaten tofu covered in skin. Like the clay wasn't let to dry properly and bubbles found their way out, and bursting on the surface left craters in the jello.

How does a body get like that?

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