12.15.2021

what's it worth to you?

Someone wants your body. 
 
What's the deal? 
Beg, borrow, buy, or steal? 
Gutter or pedestal? 
That's how it is with bodies 
that someone wants. 
 
What's it worth to you? 
A rose, a diamond. 
a cool million, a joke, a drink? 
The fiction that this one likes you? 
 
You could bestow it, this body, 
like the generous creature you are, 
or blackout and have it snatched 
and you'd never know. 
 
Kiss it goodbye, the body 
that was once yours. 
It's off and running, 
it's rolled in furs, it's dancing 
or bleeding out in a meadow. 
 
You didn't need it anyway, 
it attracted too much attention. 
Better with only a shadow. 
 
Someone wants your shadow. 
 
[Margaret Atwood {1939- } 'Shadow', from Dearly]

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