a phony, tony name
"A Phony, Tony Name," December 5, 2022 (#339)
title from "The Great Fratsby" by Rachel Syme (December 26, 2013)
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande (2014)
Having and Being Had by Eula Biss (2020)
A Phony, Tony Name
The accumulated crumbling of one’s bodily systems while medicine
dollars were hours banked, to be spent on writing, not working,
disappeared under the massive lava flow, burying Truman and his
bedtime duty. We laughed about it then—I just wanted to do a
special interest in him, which he mostly deflected. But not always
working the field. He didn’t have a college degree and he wasn't
struck by the simple insight on which it rested, and by its profound
memento of the Titanic, just to remind ourselves of how safe
a systematic campaign to get medical people and patients
can test blood to find out what the problem is, but the
wrestler shall clear all: nothing remains but that I kindle.
12-4-22
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6-3-22 art by scrola