Sunday, April 18, 2010

Week 15, Improv 2

Once again, a brief improv in the spirit of Brigitte Byrd

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On steeping a single-serving bag of tea

Sure, your self-consciousness dips and pours as easily. But no hot water could boil something useful from you. Your herbs were never primed for the picking, never dried or sun-baked. No, your sap and genetics rebuke any healing, any aromatherapy—hell, the only therapy you ever heard of came at two-hundred an hour.

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