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No footnotes

My body is, for you, illiterate and so legible

Surveilled and pieced apart

Labeled for easy pickings

Cutlets: digestible, convenient

 

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There is the Feminine in me

Taught and still becoming incomplete, filling jagged edges with collages of unfinished

and running out of glue

Trying to un-teach her-self

there is the “girl”

who can’t become a woman

and is tearing her hair upwards out of scalp

trying to grow into her definition

her footnote reads: not curvy enough,

not exotic [to][IN?] the hips,

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