How Vinegar Was Invented - by Veronica Habashy

How Vinegar Was Invented

by Veronica Habashy After Bob Hicok

CW: gore

Charlemagne’s knights were not the first to hurt and see that they were alive. Nor the second. Perhaps it was Lucy, dearest hominid, who first desired a burning of the skin, the lingering scar that would whisper from then on, the tender searing of calluses on the delicate lace stretched over her sternum.

Australopithecus afarensis predates homo sapien by three million years.

Enough time at least to ache in the brazen sunlight or Flinch at the grazed knee which is more Often than not the first time we are bruised I Never bruised easily but always Grieved each purple green yellowish blotch When its time had come to go.

Of course– some years pass before Definitions of accidental or Intentional or Necessary bruising for example:

The operating room is no place for flinching, for pain. The cold is preferred and endured, the cutting anticipated and watched in gut-clenching, hungry awe beneath