The Medicine Burns by Adam Klein

Author:Adam Klein
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: The Medicine Burns
ISBN: 9781941088166
Publisher: Dzanc Books
Published: 1995-07-26T16:00:00+00:00

His slide carousels, brief case, and PowerBook were in the hallway when I arrived, a body of work that, more than research, was divination—requiring our best faith. I wondered what he would speak of in his seminar, what justifications in tables or graphs, what picture of the epidemic he would surmise through all the data and losses.

I hung his jacket, left my clothes in a pile on the floor, and slipped beneath the blanket, naked. I thought of Jayne, of how my living had kept me from her dying; what hatred of my own life had kept me from hers; what self-destruction had kept me from sympathy, from responding to her letters. I looked at his medicines, still lined up by his toiletries bag—gods swallowing their own miracles.

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