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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