composed of hormones

"Composed of Hormones," July 26, 2022 (#207)

original title

The Enormous Room by E.E. Cummings (1922)

The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner (2018)

Room by Emma Donaghue (2010)

last line from A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf (1929)

Composed of Hormones

I posed him in a pig-like position, and the picture made him chew

this flawed exchange. This thing in me brewed and foamed. And when

animals are TV except ants and Spider and Mouse, but he's gone,

impeccable conduct merited cosy quarters. A sweeper was appointed

and his eyes did not adjust. He could see almost nothing, just the vaguest

note for you to keep hidden, a note that explains everything

was bound to be unpopular. To the good-will of those above he was

following protocols on a behavior sheet. I was alone in a strip cell, no

hanging around with that we didn’t know. I kept thinking I saw

his neck in stupid amazement, and the planton twirled his moustache

with a plugged-in refrigerator. It was a way of equating his lack of domestic

zillions and zillions. If you try to fit them all in your head, it’ll just

bark; people will interrupt; money must be made; health will break down.

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