Corpus Alienum
So what makes it a country, apart from tangled history?
-- Luc Sante
consider how a thing finds its way
inside the body a bag of nails a boat
anchor an ice pick a javelin a bicycle
pump a drill bit a pipe a knife a sword
fish a bullet another body & if the body
is a country consider what or who
is considered foreign & deemed removable
how else to tell you this some things
we write out the body some things we write
the body out of
—Ayokunle Falomo
—found in ACM (February 24, 2022)