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Rumpus Book Club“Body Politic” a Rumpus Original Poem by Rachel Loden
Body Politic
History, like hair, grows out of the head.
The whole corpus is lousy
with histories, the long undulant stories
and the brutishly short. Each follicle
is a caesar, well-satisfied and complete.
Hair presides over history, is ridden
into history by the half-hatched nit.
Hair is her menu, and history her meat.
History, like hair, is a needle in the scalp,
in the map of the body, flying in and out.
-Rachel Loden
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