body Q The Church says: The body is a sin. Science says: The body is a machine. Advertising says: The body is a business. The body says: I am a fiesta. From "Walking Words" by Eduardo Galeano, transl. by Mark Fried (W. W. Norton, 1996) 040504 ... kerry do i really need this body? wait, i'm not sure this is mine, perhaps you've confused my order with someone else's. obviously this is not what i would have chosen--a chemical soup with a side of nausea, rage added for a little kick--i send it back, i'm allergic. can't i leave it behind, turned inside-out like a dirty sock? i imagine peeling off each freckle and mole, no need for the nail clippers--i'd use a wrench instead. fold my hair over the towel rack, hang my arms from the laundry line. i would float, i think, so lightly, so easily. 210803 ... kerry like the ocean it moves and swells but has no corners or edges. 220114 ... tender_square they let her go at 3:30 pm on a friday, a half hour before her shift would normally end, instead of giving her the whole day with pay off so she could get a drink somewhere or sob at hone. they're moving to some kind of automation for payables soon and so they told her they no longer "needed the body." someone saw her walking across the parking lot holding a box of her possessions. management didn't even offer to move her into a different area of the business when she was a good worker. not even when there's someone else in accounting who processes payroll for hundreds of field guys weekly and there's no one else who serves as their backup when they've asked for one. repeatedly. 230811 what's it to you? who go blather from