The C. diff both inside me and around me. It could survive months outside a body, waiting for a new host.
The combined weight of all large animals in the world—human, cow, penguin, shark—is around 1.1 billion tons.
The combined weight of the earth’s bacteria is 400 billion tons. They overwhelm us.
For some reason, I started hearing that song “Can’t Stop Thinking About You” in my head.
The more I thought about that song, the weirder it got.
Like, the chorus—can’t stop can’t stop can’t stop thinking about you—
imagines that it is somehow sweet or romantic to be unable to turn your thoughts away from someone,
but there’s nothing romantic or pretty about a boy thinking about you the way you think about C. diff.
Can’t stop thinking. Trying to find something solid to hold on to in this rolling sea of thought.
The spiral painting. Daisy hates you and she should. Davis’s microbe-soaked tongue on your neck.
Your mom’s warm breaths. Hospital gown clinging to your back soaked with sweat.
And in the way-down deep, some me screaming, get me out of here get me out of here get me out
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