Erik Spinoy

1960 / Aalst

Here we go

Here we go
again:

my body is not
my body.

See how I stand here
bent like an outsized
praying mantis and
sicken but

however contrary
stretch out two legs
with greed and
have a feel.

My body -
taken over and run down
and plundered
like

a colony.

Translation: 2010, Gregory Ball
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