6. Two days later, I was taking out my lenses in my bathroom. I was going to bed. I stood in front of the mirror and looked at my eyes. I could see the lines around my iris that marked the edge of the lens. I tried to take out my right lens first, but it took a while for it to come out. I kept trying to take it out, but it would not come off onto my finger. Finally, it came out and I put it into a case with solution. I looked at myself in the mirror again. I couldn't see well because I still had one lens in. I blinked one eye and I could see perfectly. Then I blinked the other and I was a little fuzzier in the mirror. I stood there and did that for a while longer.
7. Soon I was ready to take out my other lens. It was just as difficult to take out, but when I got it, it fell off my finger. I could not see it anywhere. I checked my hands, my shirt, and the floor but I didn't see it. I went into my bedroom to get my glasses and came back into the bathroom. I looked all around. Eventually, I saw it. It was halfway in the sink drain. I carefully took it out and was thankful that it did not go down the drain. I turned on the faucet so that I could rinse it off quickly. The water swept the lens out of my hand and I watched it go down the drain.
8. I didn't respond fast enough to catch it. I lost it. I slammed my hand against the sink in anger. It hurt. My hand went numb. I couldn't fall asleep so easily that night. I was mad at myself. My head hurt.
9. The next day, I called my eye doctor to tell them what happened. The receptionist laughed. I laughed along with her to sound like I thought it was funny too, but I was embarrassed. She said it would be okay and that I would get a new lens when I came in for my appointment. When I went in to their office the next day, they gave me another lens.
Zeek in Print
Spring 03 issue available here
Zionism and
Colonialism?
Michael Shurkin
Simulacra and Science Fiction
Dan Friedman
I Hear America
Bling-blinging
Jay Michaelson
I wish I was...
Harbeer Sandhu
Josh Gets Contacts
Josh Ring
When I Met Humility, I saw Letters
Abraham Mezrich
Saddies
David Stromberg
Zeek @ Low
June 26, 2003
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