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My body’s a mess, my heart impoverished.
“One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji,” Osamu Dazai, trans. Ralph McCarthy
Break off my arms, and I will hold you
with my heart as if it were a hand;
strangle my heart, and my brain will still throb;
and should you set fire to my brain,
I can still carry you with my blood.
The Book of Hours, Rainer Maria Rilke, trans. Annemarie S. Kidder
This body isn’t a trial run
for your real life.
Take your life
in your hands. Make your hands useful
or you’ll be sorry.
You say sorry
more than anything else.
Natalie Wee