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I ignore the ant bite, at least it distracts from the neck itch. But I almost loose it when that spot under the eye starts twitching. I relax, check my posture and hope the ant bites starts throbbing again.

I take solace in the diseased gash on my face, and the brown recluse crawling up my leg, and the blazing pulse burning my foot to cinders.

At some point I break. A flare of angst and agony and motion I look down and kick off the spiders and ants and scratch the new welt on my face—and right then my timer goes off.

One shouldn’t gloat or agonize over meditation, or see it as a battle, but—victory!

Fucking chocolate milk man I’m telling you, it never pays off.

I don’t care to finish this aaaargh, clink, grrrr. Ally, please believe, I have reason.

What else are you going to do at nine in the morning while you wait on an inspection? Right, so I start mediating in lotus position in a plastic lawn chair on the concrete strip in front of the oil place. Two minutes in and the guy next to me offers the sports page. Kind gesture, or malevolent, I couldn’t tell which. No thank you I said, twice.

Three minutes later I am retreived. I am overly polite amongst the accusatory glares. I laugh when I pull into the road.