People die from loneliness.
Life becomes an incurable disease,
a job, an excuse-an operation
of sloppy dissections.
There is a constipation of the
heart, a diarrhea of need. Be-
ing is instinct, the body a
machine-the mind a lever or
the body the lever, the mind the
machine; in either case, operating
and driving on. And skin tightening
up bone until you mouth at the misery
and bargain with the ache. This is
not to say I am giving up, even
though life has pumped me up with
the pain. The rules are the
I am the stray one…
From Paper Soul, copyright 1968 by Third World Press.
Category: Healing,
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