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The Donut HolesI'm a double-digit midget: I drop to ninety-nine days on the first day that it doesn't rain, and Callmeblack goes to Thailand on R&R that same day. I stretch my poncho liner and mosquito netting out in the sun, and the three of us lay ourselves on top of the hooch and listen to music. By now my rot probably covers a third of my body. One patch that started under my arms has spread across my chest and across my back and hurts so bad some nights that I can't sleep any way but almost sitting up. There's more around my balls and down the insides of my legs, and my feet are both covered with it too. So I use most of a can of some new kind of salve on it and stretch out in the sun like a dog. It isn't hot but the sun makes every pimple I have feel neglected and proud of itself
