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People hit the sauce in a big way all winter. Amidst blizzards they wrestle unsuccessfully with the dark comedy of their lives, laughter trapped in their frigid gizzards. Meanwhile, the mercury just plummets, like a

People hit the sauce in a big way all winter. Amidst blizzards they wrestle unsuccessfully with the dark comedy of their lives, laughter trapped in their frigid gizzards. Meanwhile, the mercury just plummets, like a migrating duck blasted out of the sky by some hunter in a cap with fur earflaps.

Amy Gerstler
Laughter, Dark, Winter
Amy Gerstler (2000). “Medicine”, p.75, Penguin

Love doesn't reside in the heart, anyway. Love resides in the liver along with jaundice.

Amy Gerstler
Heart, Jaundice, Liver
Amy Gerstler (2000). “Medicine”, p.24, Penguin

Thin ribbons of fear snake bluely through you like a system of rivers. We need a cloudburst or soothing landscape fast, to still this panic. Maybe a field of dracaena, or a vast stand of sugar pines—generous, gum-yielding trees—to fill our minds with vegetable wonder and keep dread at bay.

Amy Gerstler
Fear, Vegetables, Snakes
Amy Gerstler (2000). “Medicine”, p.21, Penguin

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