witch hunters are fountain of youth seekers

lab coats, x rays, MRI memorandum

superiority,  disdain,               perceived

ignorance,                lethargy. witch’s marks

littering the hospital hallways. inability

to feel pin pricks       discoverable        disrobing

subjects harboring marks. villages

scapegoats:             wretched,  wracking with

dehumanizing disease, the mad,

usually women were inquisited,

periscope male gaze               witch’s

marks. beldames accused by children

male inquisitors        sexual repression

protestantism. multiple                   sclerosis,

stwardnienie rozsiane       disease is female

             hysteria. numb patches      witchery.

mystic cripples     straddling  weakness

shamanism offerings to the tribe absent brute

reminding sclerosis means scarring             myelin

sheath           nervous system  stwardnienie rozsiane  :

distributed hardening. muscle tone ossifying pathos

straddling blood brain barrier

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