Would you cry if I die? As they lower me into the cradle of the cold earth, would yours be the strong arm holding the coffin, or the gentle hand wielding the shovel, pulling the covers over my stiffening body as I tether between two worlds? Tucking me into the sleep I’ve been dreaming of for far too long, finally reaping the overflowing interest I’ve been collecting for the sleepless sleep I’ve offered at the altar where even ghosts have ceased to kneel, where candles still burn at the foot of a throne long since crumbled to stone. Would you be so kind as to warm the muddied soil in your hands before closing the tomb? I run cold in my sleep, you see. I think that’s why sleep abandoned me the day my mother stopped tucking the corners of the blanket between the bedframe and the wall to ward off the chill that bled in through the stone. She used to seal me in tight until I could no longer roll around, my tiny body swaddled in stillness as I drift off to a dre...
Toubib Or Not To Be est un club de rédaction et d'art fondé en 2008 par des étudiants passionnés à la faculté de médecine et de pharmacie de Casablanca.