Between Armageddon and Galapagos 09.20.00
12.20.03

After the last couple HMO’s relocated to Japan
or declared bankruptcy most doctors’ offices relocated
to city malls, which made sense in terms of
efficiency of space and brought in a great
deal of miscellaneous income from window shopping
hypochondriacs. Naturally the Bodyshop and similar
stores transitioned from pick-me-up aromatherapeutic
incense and softly-scented anti-bacterial soaps....

During the last earthquake all the doors fell off all
bathrooms and glassshattered into airborne dust.
Men’s penises split and cracked and withered and
women’s uteruses slipped out from between their
legs, dragging painfully until
amputated or rotted away. Dams burst, islands sank, volcanos
crumpled, oceans curled in around themselves,
and California, like a ship delayed, split
hastily from the American Mainland and
sailed half-way to Jamaica before
taking up a somewhat fixed location. Sovereignty
was immediately dclared and trade relations
with Columbia established.  ¶ 2:12 PM