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Stigma(ta)

Celia A Sorhaindo

Primal comfort from picking scabs,
short but sharp and jagged nails
punctuating healing wounds, again.

Triplicate painful pressure
pleasure; high
from finger tip control.

Something else we cannot leave
alone, like mosquito bite itches
and some unwhole men... women too.

Why not point out our st.igme wounds
like signposts, even when self made,
parade them proudly to the world?
Taken from 'Radical Normalisation'...
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