Eating nuts, roots,
crawdads, and turtles, and
speaking in symbols
smelling of shaggy, oily skin
on the underside of fallen-off
fish gills. Just nuclei colliding.
I am human.
Walking upright with massive
jaws made thick with layered enamel.
I am human.
I float through the fence- less edens
spilling my creativity messily like
a leaking hot pink rolling ball pen.
A wave of absolute zero.
I am human.
George Cassidy Payne is an independent writer, domestic violence social worker, adjunct professor of philosophy at Finger Lakes Community College, and a student of religion. He has degrees in the subject from St. John Fisher College, Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School, and Emory University. He lives and works in Rochester, NY.
Art by Jenn Zed.
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