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Exo-Estrogen
by Lindsey Allgood
I am eliminating my body
I am hands and feet and head
I can punch through it
I can walk through trees
I am silver-gold shreds
that means no one can touch me
that means i can do great things
is this not what you have learned?
to be imminent, above all things?
we are held still before tenacious thought
I am unruly desolation now
blink, and I am there
blink
I am eliminating your thought
because I can now
that I am nothing
no sand
no snow
no air
I give wrists and elbows and ankles and waists and nipples and collarbones
take it all from me
and do something good
if you can
take a body
take a breath from this world
and make it something worth
‘I am’
I am nothing
you are nothing
we are everything
the body only disintegrates
when no one
cares.
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