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Again. I’m at the Clinic with loose oranges in a burlap bag, my body tested
for levels of abnormal energy force. Last time my reading was 25.3, which
was very bad, but now it’s 38.6 and that is serious. Maybe life
threatening. Because there’s no medical treatment for this, they decide to
send me to an anthropologist who will monitor my lifestyle for
discrepancies. The taller doctor at the Clinic suggests that I might have
been adversely affected when I turned on my toaster oven and the coils were
frozen. I have no toaster oven, I tell them. Too many kitchen appliances
mean seduction by corporate capitalism, and I’m a Marxist. I hand the
shorter one an orange (Valencia) which he looks at quickly and puts in the
pocket of his lab coat. He seems disappointed there’s no navel.
Transistors in the oranges don’t count as kitchenalia, I decide. After all,
what’s a little more surveillance.
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