How defined are we, by the bodies we inhabit.
And how defined are we? Define defined.
And how!
And how to define, as our bodies do us?
Through words? Or something else, yes…
Or something. Else we are undefined.
Depending on your definition of how.
Or defining the dependence, else, on us.
And how?
Not like that, surely. Surely some word,
Surly, perhaps, or some other such term,
else our bodies, in so many words, are us
without words. Which are ours anyway.
Defined by our body-defined selves as words
And so do we define us. Don’t we? Or do we?
Or does the body define the words, not us?
But how?
By being the body we are, we define words.
In words defined by bodies, by Jove!
By being, by beginning, by being begun, but…
we are finished. In these terms, at least.
But not at last, becasue how do we know what
last thing is really the last? Define last.
But not in the words defined by us…
Not yet.
You never know, with bodies, what lasts,
and what is last, and when another thing
might be defined, just when we thought
it was over.
It wasn’t.