Atlas and Alice, Issue 19
Celeste Rose Wood
Excerpts from Disability Evaluation Under Social Security (12.00 Mental Disorders – Adult) 12.4 Depressive disorder, characterized by five or more of the following: a. b. c. d. e. f. g. h. i.
A disembodied wing; Flapping with no intelligible purpose; Attaching between the shoulder blades; Beating the back of your neck with; Something unseeable; And wrong; Breezes widen their mouths; To take your body in; To take you in.
12.06 Panic disorder or agoraphobia, characterized by one or both of the following: a.
b.
A severed tail fin, a twitching without traveling, sutured to your tailbone, flicking the backs of your legs with the secret geometries of your spine; or Flowing water tightens on your ankles to reel your body in, to reel you in.
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