The Body Recognized
in brief..
we misidentify our bodies
by forms assumed over
our years..
experience reports the
images by which we
have contained and weighed
and gendered the body
for so long..
now we must ponder that
our time-space body
as it walks and talks
is quite narrowing of a
new dimensionless
recognition..
in brief...
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