Grow Up

2024. Torn dress, wax, hand-stamped text.

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ALONE or in COMBINATION,

every action imaginable –

balancing batting bouncing carving catching digging

diving dreaming eating falling flicking flipping

floating flying grabbing gripping grinding kissing

kneading licking pinching pinning pressing pulling

pushing rolling rotating rubbing shaking slipping

sliding spinning throwing tumbling turning twisting

starting and stopping

i don’t recall appreciating as a child that force was behind every
action i initiated and every reaction i responded to.

i must have had some vague notion that i must

HURRY