My Animal Body

My animal body
has purposes
it makes sure
it achieves.

I used to think
I worked around
its powerful proclivities –
but now I see

imagining that I am
different from
this breathing, straining,
sweating, pumping,

humping, hairy
hungry thing
is fallacy. There is no “it”
and may, at least

as I had once
assumed abstractly,
not exactly
be a “me.”



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