Monday, February 3, 2020

I Sing the Body Electric

Our body is so pretty!
Can I change the nouns and pronouns however I want?
Our body’s a ditty.
And now here we are, in bed with the kitty.
We don’t have to change partners ‘cause we can’t—
bodies so pretty!
And I’m remembering what it was that brought me to this city—
Denver was a devastated land—
I hummed a ditty
and had myself transported to the Sin Twitties,
where I joined a band
of other Bedlamites whose bodies were pretty.
Well, one of us had type-1 diabetes.
He’s gone now—he went back to Cleveland,
and died after his legs were amputated.
Bandmate Steve suffered massive heart-
failure in Tennessee. But their basic self-love remains.
Our body is still pretty!
Our body’s my ditty.