After a day of drunken equine-centered revelry, Belmont Racetrack stadium looks like what I imagine the Superdome looked like after hurricane Katrina - disastrous, wrecked, filthy with trash and bottles and drunken, pink, sunburned bodies in various stages of undress, only the folks here did it to themselves. The concrete is wet and slick with some unknown substance, and drunken fools slip and fall, their bodies hitting the pavement with an alarming thud, only to stand up again, oblivious to their own pain: "I'm OK!"
The tickets from misplaced bets on Big Brown begin to thicken in the muck into a slurry of paper mush. Meanwhile, the horses run by on the track, swift and magnificent, clean and glorious in their speed, uncaring of the hopes pinned on them, the only truly happy beings in the stadium.
Showing posts with label disease. Show all posts
Showing posts with label disease. Show all posts
Jun 9, 2008
Apr 21, 2008
4-21-08 Sinus redux
Ever since 9/11 my sinuses have been a total mess - I mean, admittedly, they've sort of been not great for a while, but after "the unpleasantness downtown" spewed a toxic chemical stew into the air above New York, I started getting sick every 3 months or so. For a while I thought I was better, but it came back with a vengence this past year (probably a function of stress and not taking care of myself).
Work becomes a blur, and it's all that I can do just to do the barest minimum. I fret myself into disease and only when I'm truly good and sick do I realize, "Oh! that's why I've been such a jerk lately: I'm getting sick!"
Work becomes a blur, and it's all that I can do just to do the barest minimum. I fret myself into disease and only when I'm truly good and sick do I realize, "Oh! that's why I've been such a jerk lately: I'm getting sick!"
Feb 12, 2008
2-12-08 My Lungs are a Swamp
Woke up in the early hours unable to breathe through my nose, with a wheezing rattle chuckling down deep in my chest. I felt as if I were trying to breathe through cotton.
I was afraid the way that I've seen small animals like my cat be afraid - I was aware I was in what felt like a dangerous situation, yet I was calm and alert, knowing that something had to be done. I went into the bathroom, shut the door, turned on all the hot water, and sat while the steam loosened up the noisome crap, and I was able to breathe more easily.
I was afraid the way that I've seen small animals like my cat be afraid - I was aware I was in what felt like a dangerous situation, yet I was calm and alert, knowing that something had to be done. I went into the bathroom, shut the door, turned on all the hot water, and sat while the steam loosened up the noisome crap, and I was able to breathe more easily.
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