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SURGICAL LUBE             BRUSH/APPLICATORS
                                             CULTURES
                                             SCISSORS                      STERILE GLOVES
EMB SET                                 MINOR SET
FORMALIN                       RING FORC
                                            EXTRA SUPPLIES
STERILE GLOVES            PIPETTES                      POVIDONE/IODONE
                                           CERV DILATOR


San Francisco is a tumble of lines and arches
the sky is so big outside
                                                           CERV DILATOR
                                                           makes my throat close up
                              “I try not to think about how many people have seen what’s between my legs,” I said
over the sound of scissors.
                                             interns and surgeons                               STERILE GLOVES

                                             it was like trimming
                                             fat from a chicken breast
                                             a little cut of bumpy skin
                                             and lemon: a curved rind landing on the floor
                                                            “seventy to eighty percent reduction in pain”
it is the U-shaped scar, the points of which are still pricking; it is the pockmark
where the inside got pulled outside; it is

                              got so closed up