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| by Trevor Mitchell |
| you should drink more water,
she told me, you skin is awful – your pores are like craters and you’ve got the wrinkles of a 70 year old bag lady. more water, I thought. hmm. will it stop my teeth falling out, will it cure my male pattern baldness, my bitterness and my gammy eye? no, she said, just your skin. but her earnest lamentations made me feel bad after 10 years I still thought it might be possible to make her happy so I started drinking more water; 1 litre a day, then 2 litres then 3 and 4 until finally I was pissing so much my boss thought I was on the mooch. mitchell, he told me, you’ve been to the crapper 5 times in 40 minutes. I know, I told him, but It’s good For my skin. I drank water when I woke up, water when I arrived at the job & when I got home & water before I went to bed. I pissed more than I slept. and my skin was still bad. my wrinkles were still like crevasses and my bladder had aged 10 years in 2 weeks. and now, whenever she says I ought to moisturise or drink less or work harder or that she wishes I earned more money I take a wide glass down from the kitchen cupboard and go over to the sink to take a long long drink of water and then I stop and I smile deep inside. |
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| Dec. 2009 |
| 128 |