Tuesday, Jun. 25, 2002 - 10:42 p.m.
Poking Along

I’m feeling so much better, eh? Thanks for all the warm encouragement. I’ll write more later, hopefully tomorrow, but I thought this little anecdote might reassure you that I’m “coming around”.

Tonight after my acupuncture treatment, as I was dressing I noticed the big anatomy posters on the wall that show all the needling points. (These points are where the body’s Qi Meridians are accessible.) I’ve noticed the posters before, of course: a luscious Quaintancesque young man, shown front and back, his lush tanned body dotted with fly-like spots. My Korean acupuncturist has been poking my Qi dots every few days for three weeks now; the shoulder re-injury is healing slowly. Very slowly.

But I couldn’t help but notice the illustration embedded in the poster off to the side of the yummy man’s smooth tanned legs: a close-up drawing of his pert butt, anus pursed so kissably. And, sure enough, two acupuncture points were marked along the intimate crevice, just above and below that smooch.

Yeppers, boys and girls, there’s healing to be had down in butt-hole-land. I wonder what symptoms I’d need to concoct for my acupuncturist to, um, prick me there?