For the happy man! - Collected writings DEPRESSION: Ed Atkins

ence during their lifetime, and in death likewise), Raphe Nuclei
(chapped lips). And the Motor systems: motor system, extrapyramidal
system (banned in 1943), pyramidal tract (agape),
alpha system (we agree the ceasefire – the conditions being too
numerous and complex to relate here), gamma system (nucleic
acids, I should think), NERVES – SPINAL CORD – BRAIN
STEM, CRANIAL NERVES, CRANIAL NERVE, (0), OLFAC-
TORY NERVE, (I), OPTIC NERVE (II), Oculmotor nerve (III)
(an entropic relationship related here:), Trochlear nerve (IV),
Trigeminal nerve (V), Abducens nerve (VI), Facial nerve (VII),
Vestibulocochlear nerve (VIII), Glossopharyngeal nerve (IX),
Vagus nerve (X), Accessory nerve (XI), Hypoglossal nerve
(XII), Neuroendocrine systems; HPA AXIS – Vascular systems:
VENOUS systems, CIRCLE OF WILLIS (arterial system),
blood–brain barrier (terrifyingly thin), Dural meningeal system
(do you think we), brain-cerebrospinal fluid barrier (deadening
pain in those injured or burnt), meningeal coverings
(modelled on a door key), dura mater (A hunchbacked man
and an ancient looking midwife help a woman birth a brood of
huge brown eggs), arachnoid mater (the astral spider, enwrapping
the planet), pia mater (he turned his bulk to profit), epidural
space (gigantic, slick, imposing and archaic), subdural
space (sumo providing the unlikely inspiration), arachnoid
septum (130 years of pointless history), ventricular system (devolved),
cerebrospinal fluid (LIVE CHAT), subarachnoid space
(tentative steps), third ventricle (3rd), fourth ventricle (in
every port), lateral ventricles – anterior horn, Body of lateral
ventricle, Inferior horn, Posterior horn, superior cistern, cistern
of lamina terminalis, chiasmatic cistern, interpeduncular
cistern, pontine cistern, cisterna magna, spinal subarachnoid
space...)))) ETC. – brought to life.
A map of my brain, charted crudely on the deck of
some sort of ancient junk. A pretty heavy shitstorm!