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subject object abject you Yours

Dettol latex meat ink metal

When I look down I don’t feel comfortable in myself

So I seek you out to crawl into

Bind my chest tight Winded strangled

I take a needle a blade Slip out of my skin

Beyond taste and pain I slip out of my skin

I slip into your skin instead As you into mine

Euphoric erotic dysphoria

I peek inside you and uncover

The secret of your masculinity

Snip a bit of it off to keep

To have you to be you I wear you around

Transending devouring

The body as meat

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‘Trancending the Body as Meat’ performance for Venus in Thorns, curated by Jake Treacy for Midsumma Festival at Trocadero Art Space, Footscray. Photos by Janni Cox. January 21, 2020.