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This poem has an epigraph
from Marvel, which is,

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I feel that cannot
feel the pain.

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Dialogue.

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I overheard my soul
complain to my body

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that I slept uncomfortably
in its stiff bones.

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You beat the heart too fast.

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Twitch your eyelids.

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Pull her muscles until she
turns on the light to read.

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The body roared,
oh no, it's you.

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Why did you recall those lovers
she turned away years ago?

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I felt my soul tremble.

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Once she imagined herself
water moving slowly all day

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against the surface
tension, then you

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showed her muscles asserting
themselves in her skin.

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I turned on my stomach
knowing I was temporarily

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solid but nervous as
the soul continued.

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You claim she was opaque.

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I see her growing clear, a
pane of glass I could smash.

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How will you protect her from
your own changing architecture?

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I wanted the bodies lecture
on the nobility of old age.

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But I heard only pulse knocking
somewhere in my inner ear.

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Then the soul shouted,
in the desert,

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I'll show you how sheets
of blowing dust sketch

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images against the
sky of the dead spaces

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each particle once graced.

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My body raged at the soul.

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You'll perish in my mouth
when the last breath drawn up

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from the lungs turns
sour as it floats back.

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So I sat up in bed my
hand on the light switch.

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