4 P.M. Notes #12: noticing red

and a prompt at the end!

1. In the hospital, my uncle looks away when the doctor draws blood from his veins. He has collapsed once at the sight of his own blood, vomited like he had seen someone else’s insides spread over a train track. I had once seen someone’s insides spread over a train track. It never leaves your mind. To be disgusted, threatened, afraid by what makes us is a …