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VI. Reclamation Through Language & Body

Street Sense

Some people call me a kleptomaniac—the city, I can’t palm her often enough,a collection of purses, store-specific,nothing but gleam drops,the smell of sandalwood and rot.

If I were a movie,I would be an old avant-garde.You are ice-packedin a cardboard torture brigade.

I tongue your sweateach time I palm a new thing.