I think I'm being humbled by a type of influenza. Let me tell you, there was so much pressure at and around
my nose and eyes that I was starting to panic. I was getting these sense that I definitely must quickly change
the pressure in my head. My girlfriend went to the store to buy expectorant and medicated nose spray while I
took a hot shower (also closing the drain so the water would collect in the basin + sprinkling in loads of eucalyptus
and peppermint oils) just after consuming the brownie and a spicy piece of toast.
By the time she got back home, the marijuana was really kicking on. I started writing poetry. I tried to ingest
the medicated nose spray right away, but my sense of time and order was lost and I couldn't remember if I was
yet to ingest or about to ingest. I told my girlfriend to watch me take two big huffs of that **** and then make sure
to take it away for the whole night (I could tell it was really gonna **** me up and make me feel good [and it did]).
That **** can burn down the chimneys of your sinuses, releasing a kind of euphoria).
Anyway, I did that, and then she took it away and put it somewhere I don't know about. And suddenly the poetry was
coming out silly and self-referential (please note: [a] I don't normally go there, and this surprising fact seems
relevant). In other words, I was suddenly spat out of a panic-inducing sickness and into a state where I am expressing
voices that normally don't get their say: silly and self-referential ones. I even mentioned Christ once (not kidding).
But I'm doing okay, man. We're going to have to alter our Christmas and New Year's plans, but what the hell can you
do at this point?
The peak of my sinus pressure was simultaneous to the most tenuous and difficult acrimony with the cats. That was
all happening at the same time. The image of my writhing cat (scruffed by the neck as I inject some sedative into
her cheek pouch, and then, still scruffed, sing her a soothing rhythmic cat purr [eventually, she powers down... but not until after she has willfully chosen the center of the den as her resting place -- [an event I'm ecstatic about, obvi]]) -- this
image is rendered kaleidoscopically through the pains of my sinuses. What the hell were we all feeling?