swine flu part one: a sad little bitch
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nobody wants to be the main character of getting sick
nothing really to do with the text except that this is a (recent) photo that I like from the park near where I lived in 2009 hi friends. I know it’s been a while. Several months ago, I started writing something about a time I got briefly very sick in the very late ‘00s, probably for reasons to do with several topics pushing themselves lately to the center of the discourse (indie sleaze, epidemics). Then I got covid, and stopped writing it for a while, and when I came back to it, it started to be partly about having covid, as well as about some larger ideas to do with sickness and bodies and…
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