Rekindle
(format for treatment of hypothermia)
You have to help yourself. Get out, leave the cold, somehow block the gusts of jagged voices. Take off the robe soaked with compassion, burn it and cook something sweet on the fire. Call the women who still have money for chocolate and rum, let them hit you until you breathe. Do not trust the healing properties of time, break every watch and the rules that ask for it. A slap while dreaming and the energy will curl your hair again. The same movie every night for a week, sigh each time at a shirtless Wolverine. No direct heat, If you are bitten use a joint sleeping bag for a salve. Stop beating yourself up, it is better to stare a hole into glass than to kick it out. Shivers are benign, just warm and rewarm the body, say everything out loud even the count of pulse, sing. Turn confused thoughts into poetry, inject it into your blood, bypass the heart and kindle the body… your life.
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