Directions

Last night I was eating oatmeal.

Not oatmeal mixed with hot water or anything.

Me, hunched over, eating dry oatmeal right out of the canister with two fingers and a thumb.

I apologize for that visual.

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Directions to cure sickness (heartsickness, head-sickness, stomach-sickness)

Turn shower on, as hot as you can stand it.

Sit down on bottom of tub, draw knees up to chest, rest head. Stay.

When the hot water has done enough, uncurl yourself to open up your heart, head, stomach again.

This is tried and true.