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a space for youth writing on mental health & identity
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a space for youth writing on mental health & identity
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![]() act i. in which we are introduced to a flesh/ gathered in gorges and islets/ and the cherry bloom of blood/ as if to remind us that a small wound is yet/ a wound. feel/ the dull touch of scar tissue pooling under/ bruises and remember pain/ loses its efficacy the longer it stays./ see/ how the body that sees too much/ blinds itself. act ii.
the body weeps in copper smell and/ it is but blood and fluid/and the bright light above butcher’s counters./ for all suffering is much the same when you/ come down to it./ a truth:/ it is not what comes into the body that pollutes for/ this body pollutes itself in/ its own panic./ and another:/ this body is alive/ today because a lot of pigs/ died. act iii. the scene is/ a marketplace/ strung with phosphoryl and/ adenine and/ the heady stench of cell death/ in illegible corners./ there - look,/ the body pickpockets itself and laughs/in the thirst of/ perpetual motion for/ it is easy/ to confuse error/ and obsession/ and the impossibility of/ thermodynamics when/ you are as busy as it is./ take comfort that/ it is only in the shadow probability/ of t-cells/ that/ the body loathes itself. act iv in which/ the body discovers itself in/ the sap tang of tongue depressors/ and antiseptic/ and photons feverish from/ the small sun that reads/ welch allyn./ in this place prescriptions bloom/ like flowers and the body folds them,/ cranelike,/ into armor. act v. for we the ill know/ the body is/ a pair of lungs/ and the vacuum scream/ of sinew singing like a whale/ in the white fire of neurons./ we the ill know/ the body is/ the atlantic/ in the creeping salt itch of adhesive/ and flesh strung harpoon-like/ with saline/ we the ill know/ the body is/ nuclear in/ the reactor drip of vasculature and electrons/ and time./ act vi. for we the ill know/ life/ is but slow death. Comments are closed.
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