If God Is a Virus by Seema Yasmin

Author:Seema Yasmin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: 2021-02-19T00:00:00+00:00

Filovirus Phylogenetic Tree

Self-Portrait as Virus

Anamnesis

My patient is the same age as me: 27.

Same complexion: golden brown.

Same post code: E8.

Chief complaint: patient presents with 5-week history of intermittent blurred vision, neck pain, headaches, and vomiting.

My patient is a DJ. Spins lovers rock, dancehall, sometimes a little bit of house ’n’ garage in clubs in Hackney and Essex.

Past Medical History: Unscarred. Fine, too. Grew up in the ends without getting stabbed or shot.

Ordinarily I would ask you for your digits, he says, straightening a pretend collar on his diaphanous white hospital gown.

Ordinarily? I think. What a wor[l]d.

But since we are here—

Ordinarily we would meet somewhere near the DJ booth (who am I kidding, we would meet behind it).

Ordinarily I would let you drape your arm

around my neck.

Ordinarily we would dance to a Beres Hammond tune and hold hands.

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