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13 s t I L L My body is very dumb. It still expects you every time it’s horizontal. At the dentist’s it opened its mouth for you and instead got jabbed by a circle that mirrored its pain. I laughed. I tell my body how dumb it looks beneath the muscle of your memory. I say enough’s enough, it’s been too long, longer than the rain, its math— an endless addition ending in flood: a word that breaks, that washes away. you went away, but my body went farther: dumb thing can’t measure. It waits for the air above to grow empty and still. ...

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