A Quick One Before the Cicadas Return

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I’m going for a quick one before the cicadas return and the worms eat us all.

I woke up earlier than anticipated with an unbelievable ache, and hit a two-step grapevine when padding out for water to vomit my brains out in the most biblical positioning imaginable. When flushing a bit later, I happened to notice a shrapnel of plastic, a micro-plastic, amid…