Knowing

I feel a bubble

and I know

I have an ulcer

in the space

between my upper and lower

jaws

 

A boy told me

and seduced me

yesterday

with his diagnosis

that I probably had

a patellar femoral articulation

injury in my knee

 

My first day

volunteering

and I was already bleeding

under my thumb

from the separation of the skin

and nail

 

And I wonder

if anticipatory pain

is the same

as knowing pain