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I dreamt I had no body,

no limbs

just a head

inhumanly capable of bounding

freely along lawns of carpet

across wooden tables

through pastures of night drenched grass

fenced in by complexes of crumbling

terra cotta apartments

and dangling impossibly off of balconies from

string, like bait, begging

for the crossing pedestrians to bite

who look up in muffled horror

who shudder, retreat

and cower behind upturned

trench coat collars.

Twenty one more days to live they told me

in this strange state

of pseudo-existence

where nothing more was required of me

but to bound and be,

to love without a heart

full of life and with a feeling

like I’ve never felt before.

I dreamt I had no body,

no limbs

just a head.

I woke up crying

I wasn’t sure if I was happy to have everything again

or I was sad to be back to it all.