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Poetry Unbound

Solmaz Sharif — Self-Care

Poetry Unbound

On Being Studios

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4.93.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Who decides what’s self care and what isn’t? Who benefits? Who pays? Upon whom does the burden of self care rest? Solmaz Sharif excavates.

Transcript

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0:00.0

My name is Podrigotumma and when I was in my 20s for about eight years I had this fatigue

0:08.4

condition and there was somebody in my life who pretty much every week would come up with

0:14.0

a new idea.

0:15.0

Have you tried garlic, have you tried magnets, have you tried this kind of a pillow, have

0:18.4

you tried sleeping on your back, have you tried sleeping on your front.

0:21.7

And here's the thing, their constant stream of advice, really well-ment and possibly

0:27.4

sometimes filled with something that might have been actually helpful was something I

0:30.8

ignored because I was fatigued, being fatigued.

0:35.4

I kept on looking for a public language that would work, a public language that I could

0:39.2

trust and half the time when I was looking for things that helped, they were mostly saying

0:44.7

by this thing that will help and that was an entirely different relationship as to whether

0:49.3

it was ever going to work.

1:00.8

Self-care by Soulmasjareeth.

1:04.9

Have you tried rose hydrosol, smoky quartz in a steel bottle of glacial water, tincture

1:12.2

drawn from the stamens of day lilies grown on the western sides of two story homes, pancreas

1:19.2

of toad, deodorant paste, have you removed your metal fillings, made peace with your mother,

1:25.7

with all the mothers you can, or tried car exhaust, holding your face to the steaming kettle,

1:32.4

primal screamed into a down alternative pillow in a wood-wild tree-vading.

1:38.0

Have you finally stopped shudding all over yourself?

1:41.8

Has your copay increased, right hip stiffened, has the shore risen as you closed up the shop,

1:49.1

and have you put your weight behind its glass door to keep the ocean out, all over, rang

1:54.4

the singing bowl next to the sloping toilet, mainline lithium, collared in another mandala,

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