The interval
Three meals and two snacks. Almost no trough. Hunger and boredom share a name.
Samira, 44 · a sample current
The closed water
No labs. The stacking is the fish.
Picard · Means · Bush
Samira has not been told she has a metabolic story. The physicals weighed cargo and called the harbor fine. She eats on time because that is what a day is supposed to look like: breakfast, a bar at ten, a sandwich, something sweet to finish the afternoon, dinner, a little more to come down. The 4 p.m. crash has a name in her house. It is called Tuesday.
Sleep is five and a half hours and a scrolling hour. The waist is 38 on a 65-inch frame. She has not drawn a tube for anything that would name oil, insulin, or the liver. Blank is not a failing. The interval is already speaking.
Picard would call the stacked day excess energy resistance — the wave that does not come home. Means would say the food current is doing this, not a missing pill. Bush would ask when she last put her feet on actual ground. None of them need a barcode to begin.
What was already speaking
Felt, before a barcode
The crash
Four in the afternoon, every afternoon. The crest has farther to fall.
The night
Five and a half hours. The downstroke is cut short.
The tape
Waist 38, height 65. Waist-to-height 0.58. Tissue is already a stomach.
The plate, in their water
What arrived. How it landed.
Not a diet. Not a prescription. The body was already speaking through the plate.
The ten o’clock bar
A crest with a name. Tuesday still arrives. She has not been told this is a current.
The afternoon sweet
How the crash is fed. Hunger and boredom share a name.
Dinner, then a little more
The trough does not start. The stacked day is one long wave.
The river, after this date
A season in their water
TissueWaist 38.0 in on height 65 in (ratio 0.58). Tissue is already a stomach. The tape does not need a lab.
CurrentNo blood. A tape and a clock. The closed water is still a current.
Pool
How long is glucose out of the bank?
Blank is not a failing.
Oil
Is fat riding with the sugar?
Blank is not a failing.
Filter
Liver, kidney — is the canary calling?
Blank is not a failing.
Acid line
Is a pause still a pause?
Blank is not a failing.
Light
Is the cofactor landing?
Blank is not a failing.
Fire
Is the system inflamed?
Blank is not a failing.
Tissue
What does the tape say?
- Waist 38.0 in
- Height 65 in
- Waist/height 0.58
First casts
Already in the hand
Leave one gap
Not a fast as a personality. One stretch of hours with no crest. Watch whether the 4 p.m. still arrives.
Walk the meal down
Ten minutes after eating. The trough is allowed to start.
When a tube is drawn
Triglycerides beside HDL. Fasting insulin. ALT and GGT. Uric acid. That is the cheap stomach. Not a fifty-marker cart.
Repair
Downstrokes, not a new church
The interval is the medicine that is already in her
The body knows the downstroke. She has been interrupting it. Repair begins when the next crest waits.
Touch the ground
Shoes off, or a walk that is not a screen. Terrain is not a supplement.
Let the night finish
The mitochondria clear in the dark. Scrolling is another crest.
Baseline
Nature first. Messengers already here.
A food, a messenger, a marketplace name. The river classifies. It does not dose.
Now the current that is yours
Samira stays on this bank. Nothing here writes into your file. A plate is a name and a landing. A first cast is a clock and a feel. A season is a date, if you have one.