String Pearl (during Jordan & Billy’s afternoon performance)

The Intimacies Project - The scene 5

motion longer finally assuming one thing only writing seeing walking up and down ought never was burnt once

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World long enough ago before that something not too too.

World long enough ago before that something not too too.

World long enough ago before that something not something too too.

World long enough ago before that something no never not that.

World long enough ago before below that something no never not that.

World long enough ago before below that something no never not something not that.

World long enough ago before below that something no never too something too nothing too that.

Would long enough ago have never let nothing no nothing not something too that.

World never let the not too that.

World never let the not too that one.

World never let the not too that one before something that that one too too.

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Is my body one body.

Is my body one body not one body body.

Is my body my body, one body body, your body body.

Or is my body body your body body one body body.

My body body.
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From one body body came my body body one body body not body body times too.

Or from one body body came my body body not quite one body body but one body body times two.

Four body body yields two times body body plus no body body.

No body body plus one body body equals one body body.

One body body minus one body equals one.

About clairedonato

Claire Donato lives and writes in Brooklyn, NY. Her poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in the Boston Review, Black Warrior Review, Fou, and Harp & Altar. She is the author of a chapbook, Someone Else's Body (Cannibal Books 2009). Claire graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 2008 and is currently completing an MFA in Literary Arts at Brown University.
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