Nausea and Vomiting

It begins quietly. A queasy feeling in the pit of your stomach, a thin film of saliva in your mouth, a coldness that creeps from the belly into the chest. Your appetite is gone, the smell of food suddenly unbearable. You try to swallow, but something inside you swallows back. The world tilts slightly, your inner space contracts. You know: something is about to happen that you can no longer control.

And then comes the second act — when it comes. The belly presses, the diaphragm braces upward, and in one single, irrevocable movement your inside turns outward. What was just inside you no longer wants to be there. Your body has decided — without asking you, beyond your control, with an archaic force that pulverises every civilised composure in a second.