the oral surgeon applied a topical anaesthetic with the taste of something artificial I could only guess at but never correctly next he injected the tongue with another anaesthetic and the pain was so loud it shot out of my mouth and the nurse had to close the door after he extracted the polyp I couldn't see with what tool because my eyes were clamped shut but I could feel the warm flow of blood and taste its saltiness as it dripped down the back of my  throat later I could taste the sour thread running through my tongue as he stitched up the wound
Air                              Fire
lungs heart ear chamber          thought                            nerve nodes ganglia
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