The oral cavity as a container to deposit
round lumps of grapes,
the jaw turning on hinges
– crush, clamp shut –;
the body as a locus of defamiliarization,
the limbs splitting apart into
smaller multi-jointed manipulators at the ends.
Science fact, science fantasy;
a moral requirement to maintain
a relationship with human experience,
a clinging, a flying tackle
in the manner of American sports.
The body as ideal, idol, certification –
diagnostic approval, health parameters,
appendages as receptacles of hurt,
wellbeing a lack of adversity rather than
a confetti-whirling spectacle.
Expectations to relate in an invariant fashion
when even a bag of grocery-store fruit can vary
in taste and texture;
expectations to be relatable likewise.
Human as per your definition,
the familiar enforceable,
the unfamiliar exoticized,
– speaking endlessly speaking –
for the alien words
to counterbalance it all.
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