
S1E1 | Times of Cloud (with Eileen Myles, Wallace Shawn, Maya Angelou, Sadie Stein)
The Paris Review
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The Importance of Listening to Doctors
I've gone looking for that feeling everywhere. There's nothing wrong with me. I'm surprised I let those words out, but it's always been my tendency to lie to doctors as if good health consisted only of the ability to fool them. A yellow bird fluttered close to my face and my muscles grabbed. Now I was flopping like a fish. When I squeezed shut my eyes, hot tears exploded from the sockets. The boxes of cotton screamed. She shrieked as I imagined an eagle would shriek. It felt wonderful to be alive to hear it.
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