Existential chaos
Existential chaos
Restless, thumbs under brows. Castle above the city.
Neurology department leans to psychiatry. An occasional scream and dimmed
hallways of the department.
On a wheelchair, a boy of my age. Screaming,
shivering, rigid upper arm, saliva running down his chin, smell of urine.
My father says, crisply: “You don’t have this!” I
squeeze my fist and dig my nails in my palm. It hurts only in my head …
So many questions, evasive answers. When, since when,
where, how …
Waiting for my first EEG. (Electroencephalography is
measuring the electric activity of the brain, with electrodes on the surface of
the head).
I am only human
I am only human