Michelle O'Kane – Medium

Michelle O'Kane

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Instinct and the Spotless Mine

The first time I picked up a pencil to write I used my right hand. Instinct.

Jul 2

Jul 2

Guernica.

My memories are shrapnel and bloody bits of flesh and jagged pieces of time.

Jun 24

Jun 24

Genetic Defect Goes Exponentially Mental For Realz

May 6, 2022 During one of my recentish stays at Baylor Hospital a social worker came to my room. This isn’t unusual. What was unusual was…

Oct 14, 2022

Genetic Defect Goes Exponentially Mental For Realz

Oct 14, 2022

Don’t Pass Me By

I listen for your footsteps coming up the drive Listen for your footsteps, but they don’t arrive Waiting for your knock, dear, on my old…

Oct 14, 2022

Don’t Pass Me By

Oct 14, 2022

To flee from memory Had we the Wings Many would fly Inured to slower things Birds with surprise…

1978 Trinidad, Ca. Dear Mother- Thanks for your nice long letter. Michelle wanted to send you the deer she colored & cut out, so I’m…

Oct 4, 2022

To flee from memory Had we the Wings Many would fly Inured to slower things Birds with surprise…

Oct 4, 2022

Life Without An Algorithm.

It’s cold here — California cold — but it’s frozen in Prague. J. drove me to the airport and I left. The people in Prague are cold. Snow…

Oct 4, 2022

Life Without An Algorithm.

Oct 4, 2022

Genetic Defect Goes Mental For Realz During one of my recent hospital stays a social worker came…

Anesthetics activate memory-loss receptors in the brain, ensuring that folks don’t remember what happens during surgery. The activity of…

May 30, 2022

Genetic Defect Goes Mental For Realz During one of my recent hospital stays a social worker came…

May 30, 2022

Birth Of Venus

May 18, 2022

Birth Of Venus

May 18, 2022

Squeeze My Lemons

Squeeze My Lemons Because I fell up and right outta bed, ‘ed, ‘ed, bed, yeah!

Apr 10, 2022

Squeeze My Lemons

Apr 10, 2022

With a little help

When I was writing my last post I was thinking about my wonderful friends, who would write me notes so I knew where I was when I woke up…

Mar 26, 2022

With a little help

Mar 26, 2022

Michelle O'Kane

Michelle O'Kane

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After emergency surgery I lost 90% of my memories. And my gall bladder. And my hair. Join me as I journey through the abstract painting that is my brain.

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