Session 7: Disembodied
Gregory Bell
Does the Cosmos, then, into which
we dissolve, smack of us?
My greets me ushers me back to join
Chuck and enter the belly of the burning beast
for today’s date with a photon stream
Chilly here as usual and My asks as usual Bladder full? and as usual I answer You bet! (We got this drill down) I’ve stowed
my bag dropped trousers climbed the table head on pillow knees propped up feet strapped in sacrum planted on the carbon slab
Already routine with 21 more to go until that whirr begins to ease out space-age armature: X-rays *click* finding the markers those gold balls the heavy thumping in the walls and then the whine With that I slip outside the animal of my tainted body being blasted now up and out I float
disembodied ride on waves Vivaldi’s Piccolo Concerto watch my molecules dispersing
into sixteenth notes
Epigraph: Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies, The Second Elegy
Translation by this author