if you look closer it's easy to trace the track marks of my tears

feels like jello is in slogging around slo-mo in my knees after my first in a series of 4 hyaluronic acid gel injections in each . 3 more weeks, 12 more shots counting the lidocaine (hey, i don't care if there is cotton candy in it, a needle is a needle). then i'll be unstoppable. at least that is what the pharmaceutical company's brochure promises.

"Gentlemen, we can rebuild her. We have the technology. We can make her better than she was before. Better, stronger, faster, less osteoarthritic."
- Oscar Goldmann