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antiBODY An Anthology of Poetry and MedicineMain MenuForewordIntroductionAt the Teaching Hospitalby Dan KrainesAtrophyby Paul BlomBarnacled to the Boneby Stephen C. MiddletonBiopsyby Julie RosenzweigBlood Truckby Sophie Summertown GrimesChokeby Alyson MillerDead See Scrollby Rich MurphyDeciding Not to Wear Glassesby Donna J. Gelagotis LeeDiscovery: Negative Returnby Tara SkurtuExileby Lane FalconFlushby Stephen MeadFruitBy Tyler ChadwickGrandmother Dead, Then Alive, Then Dead Againby Matthew BakerIf Not Absolutionby Matthew BakerLackby Sarah Anderson WoodMirenaby Meagan GrantMittelschmerzby Sarah KerseyMoon Childby Lisa Hitonpecan, rodef, clamby Susan ComninosRefugeesby Walt PetersonShe Cannot Let Him Goby Nancy Smiler LevinsonSome Days Begin Like Thisby Tara SkurtuThe Mechanics of Loveby Victoria GatehouseThe Needleby Isla McKettaThere Was Beauty in That Graphby Geralyn Pinto[Untitled]by Nan Darbous Marthaller[Untitled]by Nan Darbous MarthallerContributorsCalvin Olsenb5c5f3583225f37f1f8a2a51ca3fc4b14f902087
Hysteria
12018-02-21T23:45:40-08:00Calvin Olsenb5c5f3583225f37f1f8a2a51ca3fc4b14f902087180221by Donna J. Gelagotis Leeplain2018-02-21T23:45:40-08:00Calvin Olsenb5c5f3583225f37f1f8a2a51ca3fc4b14f902087by Donna J. Gelagotis Lee
—1800s
Doctor, please, must you use that thing on me? So cold and hard and clinical. Am I being cynical about love, which is why you diagnosed me? O experimentation.
How many other diseases have you twisted into a female logic, which is how you nearly para-phrase it to your male colleagues? What is a woman’s disease? Is it
reproductive? As in the one who bears offspring? My, that paralyzes me just to think about it. Is heaven forbidding a woman’s bidding? O horrible
delicate truth, knit me an armrest. Lift my skirt, why don’t you? There, are you satisfied? O wicked hour / ours, what malady suits you?
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