two from Mean Body
Kate Robinson Beckwith
Energy: spiral
For awhile my most used word was “unhinged”
but lately
it is “absolutely”
Naughty may
endure but
Mutability
I feel like a painful boat
Whole body skin cuts
After a little banter and coaxing, I accepted107
Mothers and other unwanted women108
Everything about the act of writing seems to invite abuse –
its solitary nature, its interiority, the misery of sharing yourself
with
an often-indifferent audience109
It’s off
The beast
Leash110
Eating breakfast with my partner’s lover
kitchen table polycule111
Texting myself links
to products
*****
One of the issues around here is a failure to acknowledge
that being is becoming112
When you’re taking a risk with a dish you have
to remember how to cook
mean body enters ecosystems
of interaction
we’ve all been welcomed into
bit by bit
I heard parents ordering
children out of strollers with a variant
of “we didn’t come here for nothing.113
Didn’t give you minutes
not even moments114
They live in “Place”115
strange stars
not of this world
or the most familiar one
Other times I would check my messages
in the morning to find a picture
of spilled juice with the caption: “just spilled my juice”116
Every form of energy in this picture is spiral
Breathing in I imagine myself as a flower
Breathing out I release freshness
Breathing in, flower
Breathing out, freshness
In
Flwr
Out
Frsh117
Cellular voltage
Scientific and medical studies have proven
nutrition and exercise are both key factors
in optimal health and prevention and recovery from illness,
but there’s another important factor that’s often overlooked:
Voltage
Think of your body as a cell phone
just as daily use drains this battery
our everyday lives diminish the voltage in our cells
virtually anyone could benefit
from restored cellular voltage
regardless of age or health
The three most important factors in cellular health are
-
Voltage
-
Nutrition
-
And dealing with toxicity
What you’ll find as a common characteristic of all disease is
inadequate cellular voltage118
More than half the country needs to be windmills
Disinfectant ASMR
Breathing in I imagine myself as the sun
Breathing out I release brightness
Breathing in, sun
Breathing out, brightness
In
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Out
**************** 119
What must it be like to be completely satisfied by an image?
Baby cutie pie bro man babe, bruh
Full on bales, bruh
Four bales of hay
doesn’t hate his mother, just hates spending time with her”120
Ahhh that’s sad, bruv, I woulda cut their head off
to be merciful
Don’t get psyched out by futility121
And don’t cry when I’m eating, please
*****
Communist Alexa
redistributing profits
Ethical Trollope
Methodist encampment
Democratizing function
pulls back the curtain of human thought
Imagine my surprise to discover
the line was “imagine my shock”
“Business pastor”
I just find that funny
Evangelical Buddha:
“Eating tortured meat will torture your mental health and soul”
(it will tho)
In glad submission to the elders122
*****
Intoxicated
with the madness
I’m in love with
my sadness123
a kind tool
a ton of eggs124
an agential straight-jacket125
How dare I
desire
what I’ve been trained
my whole life to desire
just by living
A great threat to the thread
I’ve passed through a portal
Technically, I knew what was on the other side
nevertheless, she
was blindsided:
mean body has mothering tits
107 Less than a month after I met my soulmate, I ended my 14-year marriage, Amanda Trenfield, https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/life-and-relationships/less-than-a-monthafter-i-met-my-soulmate-i-ended-my-14-year-marriage-20220419-p5aejj.html
108 NYT?
109 ibid
110 window graffiti, Houston
111 Online dating, 2022
112 Srsly Wrong, episode 253
113 No Strollers, Ryan William Nohea Garcia, https://www.amazon.com/Strollers-RyanWilliam-Nohea-Garcia/dp/B08QGH7TWF
114 Prefab Sprout, “Bonny”
115 command, not place
116 NYT, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/06/style/modern-love-college-essay-winnersyrian-war-whatsapp-group-chat.html
117 Disha Gupta’s Yin Yoga class, Barefoot Movement, Wednesdays, 6pm, Oakland
118 https://youtu.be/XaJTJHonrns?t=54
119 Disha Gupta’s Yin Yoga class, Barefoot Movement, Wednesdays, 6pm, Oakland,
120 You again
121 Anna Gurton Wachter
122 Matt Chandler, The Village Church
123 Smashing Pumpkins, “Zero”)
124 Guy Fieri
125 C. Thi Nguyen, The Ezra Klein Show: A Life-Changing Philosophy of Games