Too Much Information, Part 4

(With this audio supplement.)

Chill (Wisdom, calm; genuine forgiveness and complacence; healing, healed; together but living separate lives)

endo, homeopathic cures

[Used to each other, finishing each other’s sentences, less given to hostility, amiable, calm, though not passionate at all, able to joke.]

B: Health is more than just the—

A: Absence of disease! Alacrity must astral be & from being beam.

B: Belief in breathing healing, & needles, and qi, & treatment from trees and serenity...

A: Surrendering.

B: Direct from earth’s essential oils’ aromas floating between soil & the celestial.

[Self-mockery, convivial, goofiness.]

A: So let’s just dress up in sensual silks & sit still.

B: An illness is the individual’s villain; millions of women with endometriosis tend to grow cysts though the disease eats at each uniquely.

A: Real treatment is the deep realization of real life’s vacancy & why the disease came to be in the first place.

B: “Invasion at birth; such banes are innate; inherent—or hereditary”—her head carries the curses of medicine’s western worst: relentless injections; acceptance of “the inexorable;” rejection of the ostensibly cryptic, mystical, or demented; division of the mental & physical—

A: But the ill are no victims. The will is protective.

B: (Agreeing) Perfection is nestled in the dead between heartbeats.

A: (Nodding vigorously) Drink in the dark. Drink in the dark.

B: Believing is harmful.

A: Beliveing is harmful.

B: (Pointing to skin of distant passerby) But the bleeding is going too far & how freakily sallow, see?

A: (Winking, jocular) Imbalance is the heart of the malady.