Vacupuncture

i wish i could remove thingsin answer to this western solutionof adding things on,this triple quarter pounder big mac of solutions and remedies,this high fructose, blazing sodium seasoning used to spice up spoiled food for thought.i wish deft and expert hands could move along your body, removinggaffs, tridents, harpoons, rescue hooks,all the leistersthat the tiny little people have lashed to youto bring you down.the acupuncture didn’t work after all,not with the tools they used anyway,the hypodermic needles,the ballpoint pen tracheotomies,the intubations,all of it ghastly and invasive,all of meant tovaccinate you from the truth of yourself.baggage?you’ve got a luggage rack, pal.i wish i could take that away instead of inventing more storage.cross to bear?buddy, your hauling all of latitude and longitude itselfand i wish i could remove thatinstead of strutting it on some sick runway.it would be great to scrape off the irritationsinstead of adding meditations to cope with them.basically we’re talking about subtracting illnessas opposed to adding medication, make sense?what i’m getting at is that most of us don’t needneedles put in,we need syringes pulled out,the needles that crocheted the spaghetti of our brainsinto some foreign tapestry.imagine an expert coming along quietly,painlessly removing the darts, the flechettes, the arrows,the pikes,the spears,pulling off the bear traps,slipping the thorns from your pawand finally, with the help of several orderlies,removing you from the life you have embedded yourself inlike an alabama tick.it would be nice to apply that dentist’s vacuumand withdraw all the slobberfrom your cheeks,the salivation from coveting greener grass.it would be best if thatsuction tube were applied,withdrawing the thing that came to term in youthat you never came to terms with. the thing they shot you full ofwhen they fucked you.in fact,
come to think of it,it would be healthiest ifyou just forgot you ever read this.

-Joshua Rizer