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Eurydice learns about snake bites
It’s a matter of safety and practical scouting.
She can light a fire and build a bivvie, sing a national anthem in two languages. She can sew on a button and semaphore messages back to land. She can practise CPR, and is ready to save a life, even her own. There are many things she knows. Tonight she will unstitch the edges of her eyelids and let her crocodile brain take cold-blooded pleasure from deep inside. The unstitching begins with the needle and thread beneath recycled crochet blankets. Can you hear me? Open your eyes. What is your name? Squeeze my finger. Her body will unwind on ceramic tiles and slide underneath the bathroom door to ready itself for the curiosity of initiation. She has prepared for the unconscious. Becoming and repeating the spell. Can you hear me?
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