Notes on Seroconversion<\/p>\n
Then & only then was it made clear: I was to be no different than the rest stepping out to toke menthols at the curb, standing tall & slack-jawed as we joked about our aging forms\u2014this fresh stretch mark, that odd crash course\u2014did you know there was more than one way to snake a drain? to sump a pump? to earn one\u2019s crust?\u2014eventually snuffing the butts to reenter the song & hall with an edged finesse, as seen in certain sub-sects of eels\u2014the swarm of us, looking just as lithe & cosmopolitan beneath the stroboscopic lights; fueled by syrup & ice & salt on the rim & in these stolen seconds, when the self-loathing lowers its pitch, who wouldn\u2019t be convinced they could exist: bright-eyed, bushy-tailed, not subject to bad trips or high rent or low T cell counts or tear gas or squalor\u2014 who wouldn\u2019t be convinced, utterly convinced, to live might always feel <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":753,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[13],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-issue-1","category-new-satisfying-poems","tag-new-poetry"],"yoast_head":"\n