Unbecoming A Body (Draft)
Water, heat, broccoli, lemon, white vinegar, adzuki beans, stainless steel pots, water bath, portable induction cooktops, pot grime, goats milk soap, rope, polished stone, horse hair, adhesive, Vaseline, underwear, latex, St John’s Wort, extraction fan, looping audio, gel lighting filter.
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As it tingles past your nose hairs and makes its way to your throat, particular memories are summoned; a squashed body on the hottest of trains – dripping with sour sweat and bacon sandwich drippings; scorching quick sex, with slick dirty-nailed fingers and last night’s teeth – followed by a mundane errand like shopping for tomatoes and a monumental celebration shadowed by a hangover so wretched, you couldn’t move.
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