Rise & Fall
By Joe Vickers
For Kevin
I thought maybe
you’d want to
see what
my stomach looked like
with a pen in
it. I stuck one
in and
snapped a foto from
the bedside
next to
me she asked
what I was doing and
without words I
took it out
then immediately
felt strange
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Joe Vickers was born in the US, studied English and writing in Wisconsin. He currently resides in London and is managing editor at medium.com/trauma-transformation.