Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Pain


Tell you it’s real nice boppin along with no pain and feeling that you’ve never had a bad day in your life and never will have. Then suddenly you have pain. By pain I mean not the kind that animates the sensory nerves and sends a jangling along the pathways to register as fire in the brain. The pain I speak of has no fire, no jangling. It is the stunned silence after a bomb blast, the clear-cutting of perception which the migraine would otherwise occupy, the wide absence of tiny understandings. It is mortal pain without the histrionics, agony without writhing. It is dumb, it is dumpf.

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