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To be spoken with as much or as little rythmn as you wish.

Orignally I imagined a film of the main body functions but when it became words they began to leave the body and threatened to become endless. Eventually I looked for the more bodily verbs in my memory and in Walt Whitman's Song of Myself and then stopped. At present there are 156 functions.


10 October 2001/19 November 2001