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Bullet doux

  • amolosh
  • Apr 11
  • 1 min read

Updated: 6 days ago

Albrecht Dürer, Melancholia, engraving, 1514


Disoriented, brain-fogged, down at the mouth,

I consulted Dr. Despair, my longtime quack,

who swiftly put a finger on the case,

an acute autoimmune reaction to Western Civ.

Aside from aspects of the global South,

there’s not much left that I can hack or face

—I'm allergic, above all, to all talk of “race.”

“No worries!” grinned the furibund toubib,*

prodding me amiably under my missing rib.

“Never fear—you'll not for very long suvive!”

 

*French slang for “doctor,” from Arabic ṭabīb.

 

Thursday, April 10, 2025

 
 
 

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