the_body_breaks raze unexplained bruises pile up like unpaid bills. serpentine stains on a hand-drawn map. cuts and scrapes appear at random, unseen until the sting of some still-raw thing being touched with too much muscle gives them away. nails chip and turn feral. dark protein fades to white. there are aches and moans where before there was only the fluid movement of well-kept machinery. you lose a step and bank in a prayer at the buzzer. the body breaks and goes on breaking while the mind works overtime to gather what it can for safekeeping. we go on this way. we go on. 250320 what's it to you? who go blather from