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Skin Surface Tension

from All Terrain by Shirley Pegna

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Skin Surface Tension

friction of stethoscope drawn along skin

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Stethoscope contact: left ankle and top of foot

15062020

Bristol UK (Latitude 51.4690527°, Longitude 2.5829104°.)

Accompanying text excerpt from a distant place:

'Pampaputi – (For Whitening)'

You become obsessed
with papaya soap.
12 years old.
Pampaputi,
they say.
for your armpits.
for your elbows.
for your knees.
for your…
body.
“Kung maputi ka lang,”
(if only).
You become obsessed
with hiding.
Arms in long sweaters (from the sun)
Wide brim hats (from the sun)
Your whole body (from the look in their eyes,
the taunting smiles, and the titas with papaya).
“Kung ‘di ka lang maitim”
(if only)….'

(Nicki Minaj)

Saint James Trinidad (10.6744° N, 61.5326° W)

Reference:
powerpoetry.org/poems/pampaputi-whitening
(accessed on line 15.06.2020)

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from All Terrain, released February 26, 2021

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