SPOONS

Written for: Partydoll's Almanac, 2015

"When I disembarked at JFK, sinuses plastered with Columbian cocaine, stomach lined with Amazonian parasites, aggressively tan and ghastly skinny and covered in welts and gashes, I spent so long vomiting before I went to claim my bag that my borrowed hiking backpack was no longer in circulation and was quarantined behind the baggage carousel. . ."