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if life is a theme

then improvise
on a theme of life

all that's impressed on a body
by a body of language
delivered via usurping institutions

long before your body language
wiggles in opposition
wanting to go
this way
that way

against all those
when your body shows more to others
than language can see, can give you,

you're fending
against all others minus one


your body succumbs disappears
under force of language-
yet
before that
both were fiercely separate:
lust never lusting for language

but then
themes begin to overlap
like reused sackcloth
from darkest moral quarters

from where the quasi dead
still command
not only the still too liveliest

yet the near dead seize the body
by its word,
freeze it
within raging unreason

and all by order
of a theme:
an authoritative text
commanding