February 6: [First you must love your body, in games]

[February Feels Like]

First you must love your body, in games

in wild places, in bodies of others,

Then you must enter the world of men and

learn all worldly ways. You must sicken.

You must return to your Mother and notice 

how quiet the house is.

Then return to the world that is

not Man

that you may finally walk in the 

world of Man, speaking.

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Lew Welch, Ring of Bone: Collected Poems (1973)