separation does this funny thing
where at first you feel a sensation like
your skin peeling off
like a part of you has gone missing
and you are most of the things that make you you,
minus a few

but the human body
and mind and soul
are fantastically adaptable

the absence makes something rumble
deep inside you
and like an amoeba, or other one-celled organism,
we simply grow new limbs
on which to stand

03/20/2009

Posted on 03/20/2009
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