hoop raze you've done this before. when you were sure some hidden hand was making a fist inside your skull and beating you to death one halfhearted hammer blow at a time, the mri technician asked you to remove your piercing so the almost invisible metal band in your face wouldn't keep the image of what wasn't there from forming. you found a way to work it back into the hole in your earlobe. that was almost twenty years ago. your hands must still remember what your mind threw away. when the ring you've struggled to thread through an inlet of skin slips from your fingers and lands belly-up on the unwashed bathroom floor, rinse it off and try again. and when you're almost home but the hinged closure won't take, bend the gold back the way it came without fearing its collapse. the circle is continuous. it can't be broken. 220727 what's it to you? who go blather from