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Poetry and Prose
Poem
The body amnesiac
  1. Jenny Xiaoyue Chen
  1. Correspondence to Jenny Xiaoyue Chen, 107 Avenue Louis Pasteur Box 021, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA; jenny_chen{at}hms.harvard.edu

https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2013-010485

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    There is almost no resistance.

    Under the peach bleached lights

    The flesh parts indifferently like the wet tissues

    That smeared the tears of her grown-up kids

    Who have pristine memories of this once powerful body.

    A body that held some of them in …

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    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.