Dear (Unfortunately) Colleague,
A coworker of ours died suddenly today, way too young to do so and of course leaving a grieving young widow and little children. Seconds after I got the departmental e-mail breaking the news, certain as the dawn follows the night your prurient ass was in my office asking questions. NO, I don't know how he died. NO, I don't know if he was sick. NO, I don't know how old his children are.
You do this WHENEVER someone dies. You like to chew on all things thanatological. I get it. You're socially awkward and it's how you connect with people. Could you do it in a way that offends me less? Could you, say, take up a passion for collecting Victorian hair jewelry? It's so distasteful to see you insincerely grief whoring all over the place, and you seem to think I need to hear about it.
Sometimes you remind me of the woman in the John Cheever short story Torch Song--the lewd and searching shape of death? The worst part is that you're a physician. I know docs can be all kinds of messed up, but that's one brand of insanity I have never encountered in the many, uh, wounded healers I know.
Oh how you give me the creeps,
Dr Rima
A coworker of ours died suddenly today, way too young to do so and of course leaving a grieving young widow and little children. Seconds after I got the departmental e-mail breaking the news, certain as the dawn follows the night your prurient ass was in my office asking questions. NO, I don't know how he died. NO, I don't know if he was sick. NO, I don't know how old his children are.
You do this WHENEVER someone dies. You like to chew on all things thanatological. I get it. You're socially awkward and it's how you connect with people. Could you do it in a way that offends me less? Could you, say, take up a passion for collecting Victorian hair jewelry? It's so distasteful to see you insincerely grief whoring all over the place, and you seem to think I need to hear about it.
Sometimes you remind me of the woman in the John Cheever short story Torch Song--the lewd and searching shape of death? The worst part is that you're a physician. I know docs can be all kinds of messed up, but that's one brand of insanity I have never encountered in the many, uh, wounded healers I know.
Oh how you give me the creeps,
Dr Rima
