I am.

Identity is a funny thing.
In this age, you can identify as anything,
even as something you're not;
where your body is an accessory, to be
changed as you change your clothes.
But what if our minds existed solely to move
our bodies through space and time?
What if my body transcends me?:
conciousness as purgatory.
I dance in paradise. I feel, therefore...

-- Copyright 2007 Maddie Ruud

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