• Twenty-two hours after my mind made war on my body, the body persuaded the mind into its point of view and I removed the piercing from my upper lip. Last night, I held ice to my mouth and my mouth was so upset. It made the freezing hurt. But my fingers, armed with the power of oblivion, made my mouth forget it ever had objections to anything, forget there was anything to object to. My fingers succeeded in numbing my mouth, like when the British got China on opium. The mind rejoiced that its allies, the fingers, had impeccably served their purpose in the plan. The mind kept using the fingers to fearlessly puncture the mouth. This was quite a feat considering that the fingers were part of the body, which operates only to function healthily, painlessly, and lip piercinglessy. Oh what walls the frozen nerves lifted! The numbing worked so famously that it wasn’t for 5 or so minutes when the mouth realized it had a steel bar all the way through its top lip. OUCH
    So just a moment ago, my mind was sleepy and unsuspecting. The mouth was so distraught about this invading substance that it swelled and hurt, big lip, real pain. The tired mind was moved by the mouth’s plight and sent the fingers to remove the piercing. OUCH
    So often does mother destroy child. The Berlin Wall dissolved with the government that built it. Heather hates Rosemary’s obsession with “Twin Peaks,” a show Rosemary was converted to by Heather. Sharks eat their babies. Dorian was jealous when Vincent and I held hands, when I was only motivated by spite after witnessing Dorian’s affair with Arienette. Rai introduced Winter into a boy she’d dated; when Winter and Alex began going out, Rai rushed back to sweep Winter off her feet out of insane jealousy. Have you ever seen a torn umbilical cord still attached to a child falling carelessly out of a trash bag? OUCH