Pleasing Tree by Brooke Larson5/13/2023 If we’re going to live the rest of our lives together, what can I do to make us both comfortable in this body? Yeast-he once said, giving a batch of brew a careful ice bath-wants what we want. What do you want?-I would pray to the so-called virus of the so-called degenerative neurological disorder. It likes to eat what it likes, stay comfortably cool, and excrete to do it all again. And now, we see: a sort of magic, in so-called controlled conditions. Before that, we saw: a sort of magic, in certain conditions. Takes a million of these hungry lives clumped together to become visible. We’ve been brewing for millennia and didn’t see yeast’s role until less than two-hundred years ago. So-called water under the so-called bridge. Have you ever been roommates with a yeast infection for two years? If yes, you may have been misdiagnosed for one of those years with a degenerative neurological disorder, in a foreign country, where you crossed the border to buy medicine, aggressive medicine, to treat the wrong damn thing, incurable anyway. So I learned about yeast, and yeast learned me-at the very least intimately. The organism was eating me, and I was drinking the organism, and we both couldn’t seem to stop. At the time, as is often the case, I had a complex relationship to a single-celled organism.
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