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How to spell Multiple Sclerosis


I have Multiple Sclerosis /

Listen and you will hear a pill dissolving on her tongue / A bed sheet drying on a chair in the kitchen /

It’s ok / I’m not dying / Do you want to ask me any questions /

No /

Lie next to the darkness in her body / listen /

Scrutinise the circuitry of her nerves / a city of lights / Everything down there is the same because it’s the first time you bothered to look /

The first time you bothered to listen