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Body Talk

by Peter Pereira

While the ear may hear what
the head heard, lips can slip or lisp.

Wrists will twist or twirl while
the hand writes the wriest writs—
lamps-lit palms opening to psalms.

But when the spine is supine
and the penis ripens, the mind
neither snipes nor opines.

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