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The Image of Alterity

a trick knee
is the ultimate blind spot
a snapping from the inside

or this bone spur
a build up of calcium
and discarded grudges

these are the body’s brave faced defectors
the inept entities that are all
concept without form

but all the connective tissue links to –
every relation, this is the definition
this is contraception

the unmaking of the self
through a bee hive of an osteoma
that spreads across your own borders

or finding that your own name
is an anagram
for everything that you hate

the only opposition you can’t see
is yourself