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My name is Podrigotuma, and all my life really I've been kind of burdened

by a profound sense of self-consciousness about my body

that has at times been really debilitating.

And the older I've gotten, and also the more I read poetry

and poetry's attention to form, the more I realize that the body is form,

and that there are many questions to be asked about the form of the body,

the most uninteresting of which are the ones that I have in terms of my own self-consciousness,

but the most interesting of which are the ones about the nature of being human,

the nature of changing, the nature of getting older,

and being in a body alongside other people in bodies.

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