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Adventures in The Skin Trade: homage to Charles Plymell

Francisco Diamond

Sleeping under street lights
Occasionally car seats
That’s what nurtured this skin
I uncomfortably sit in

Skin loosely flooping air
hisses through meaningful holes
Called by some cheloidal scars
Meanwhile...

Quotidian sticks up its head as it tends to do
Saying hi, how are you the weathers nice and o my you’re thinner

Perversely I have it in me to reply
I am the cook
I am the walrus
But I decide not to reply
and know that I AM
the farmer of the rainbows

Feeling under the skin of the cook or the walrus
Searching about in secret chambers made by unknowing bees, wait, can it be?
In the volcano
beyond the waters of Vanuatu

The worker ants no longer see
-the grand design, from being underground too long
Their nearsightedness only improves alchemy
Soon they will be able
to channel a human heart

I cultivate another skin
One that looks more like me

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