there's a rot out here. I can see it consume the trees that line the sides of the road we travel down. It eats them from the outside in. dead branches stand tall, looming over the last stronghold of leaves towards the centre of the tree, like atherosclerotic plaques have clogged its branches and its peripheries are suffocating and starving.
It's funny how diseases affect us all differently. sure, it started in my peripheries too, ive never had long nails, only ever gashes at the tips of my fingers and toes, but that was long ago. Now, I can feel it devour me from the inside out. My brain was the first target. It got to it years ago. My heart next, and now I can feel it spreading outwards. Down my limbs, in the tingles and burning of my nerves, the turbulence in my arteries and the clots in my veins. It will meet in the middle of my hands and feet, as i gnaw to the stumps of my wrists and ankles and as the rot continues down from trunk to limb. Soon I won't be anything else.