reasons why my body is awesome: low blood pressure very little trouble sleeping haven’t vomited since January 2011 bones all intact badass scars cute dimple at old stoma site super-efficient waste disposal system tattoos clear skin soles of feet have a pleasing arch mad hair that sometimes looks pretty good ambiguously-coloured eyes back curves in,…
Little old me reading a couple of my poems. Rare sighting! I’m running away and hiding now.
0. I’ve never known brotherly love. I didn’t grow up fighting with siblings or learning to ride a bike down my street with a mocking grin and a steady hand at my side. I grew up with the knowledge that there was a gaping hole where a boy should have been. Where my big brother…
stand back: I’m writing poetry this requires two hands one to hold the pen one to grasp a piece of star and determine how it feels – what’s it like when those jagged edges cut the skin and does the blood glisten as much as this artefact I stole from the sky stand back: this…
I realised this week that I have sort of come to be quite fond of my stoma site. Yeah, you can see where the staples used to be and the skin stretched, and the scar is a bit raised and lighter than the skin around it, and I can’t really feel when I touch it.…
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