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““What are your symptoms?” asked The Doctor.
I answered, “Well, I’ve been feeling faint and…” A pause. The Doctor looked at me. I think I am hearing birds. I am flight headed. “I keep hearing a symphonic-like buzzing in my head.”
The Doctor took an otoscope to each of my ears, “Have you been doing anything different lately? Change in diet? Exercise? Stress?”
All day long there are people who watch television. There are people who sit at desks and stare out windows.
“I have been listening,” I said. What I’ve been hearing seems to echo and it has been making me forget to eat. I don’t even miss the food. I don’t even feel lonely.
The Doctor told me to follow their finger with my eyes, “Go on.”
“Doctor, there are places where a noise can be dreamily silent, as if the clash, the bustle, is reserved for others,” my eyes followed the pointer finger from left to right then back again. Gone are the days of cheap chorus.
The Doctor took out a plexor. On the first hit against my right knee, I tilted my head back, lips parted, smiling I said, “I can hear the medical percussion.” The Doctor took the plexor to my left knee. Leonard Bernstein once said, “This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.”
I asked The Doctor, “How many deaths do we get?”
“You’re not dying,” The Doctor grinned with a mouth full of perfect teeth. “I’ve seen at least ten people alone this week with what you have. And that’s just this week.”
“Have you ever opened a door not meant for artless opening?” The Doctor questioned me. I shook my head no. “You get to feel the reverberation. My best advice? Keep listening to The Organist however you see fit. Naked in the bathtub. On the floor of your apartment. In a bald motel room off the interstate. While staring into the faithful mirror of Lake Victoria.”
I looked at The Doctor. “Uh…what about while on a walk.”
“Or that,” The Doctor smiled and told me I was free to go.”
Julianne Neely via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
07/31/17
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