Wednesday, September 4, 2024

Body / Mind: Elegy 24

Body / mind problem


The body is

Present / the mind

Past / the body

Identified by her

Hair / flesh’s corruption

A test of

Mind-body problem

We want mind

We get body

We want body

We get memory

In a cloud

Uploaded filed away

Not by us

Whose memories they

Are but by

Apple to whom

I pay each

Month to keep

My photos safe

Of bodies not

Souls even if

Eyes offer windows

To experience / not

Its concept / words

Fail / meaning too

Much not enough

Body smells bad

Soul is non-allergenic

You are neither

Now peripatetic friend

How do I

Talk to you

Without them / here


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