September 19, 2008
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Thoughts on the Body
Our eyes are round and slimy; I wonder if they would bounce well.
One can imagine the stomach as a boiling cavern of lava, where food is consumed in the raging inferno.
The mouth is another cavern, a dark and damp home to a large mobile slug. Usually the mouth is closed, and he lies quiet; but if the sleeping beast is roused, he may emerge and show his fury to the world of light.
The belly button is a sham; pushing it does nothing. Couldn’t it hyrdrate or inflate us or something? They should have just left the cord on so I could play with it.
We put food into the same place we use to talk. Words come out, food goes in; an odd coincidence of functions by all accounts. You’d think we’d fuel ourselves through a fuel compartment in our side, like a car. Instead we go to restaurants with people, and have to balance the two; fuel and talk, fuel and talk…
Our lips are the inside of our body turned out, and when we press this inside-turned-out part of us against the same on another person, it is a very romantic thing. I wonder if we cut skin flaps open on other parts of our body and pressed it against another person’s it would also be considered an act of intimacy.
We have two eyes, but see only one view.
Good thing we have gel-pads for sitting on.
I don’t care about my hair; it can do what it wants. It is like my front lawn if I were an aging widow.
Hmmm… my feet don’t *feel* like they’re carrying 140 pounds. Weird.
Comments (12)
Good thing animals are made out of tasty meat.
i wish I would run faster with my belly button pushed
…All this from the textured grey thing floating around inside your head.
what’s your favorite part.
personally, i like the useless little button i have.
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Hmm..I don’t know if this counts, but I would have to say the voice. That there’s an invisible “something” that we can flood the air with is uniquely amazing. But what I like even more is that everyone’s voice is different – it seems to be the signature feature of each person. I’ve never heard the same voice twice (well..from two different people, that is). I always think the amount of voices will run out, but somehow every person I meet sports an entirely new one. Extraordinary.
If that doesn’t count, then ears. I think they look funny.
Yep, we’re pretty weird. And what’s weird is that it all looks normal.
Oh, I enjoyed this.
I wonder whether they would put up a new presidential election sticker next to it…?!
You don’t think our moms have the same voice? really?!
You have a very good mind and a certain kind of honest style.
I love the line about your hair being like the front lawn of a widow – that’s a great image.
Kissing and chewing are strange things, when you think about it…and I try never to think of ears. They’re one of the most odd parts of the human body in my opinion. Second only to, perhaps, the bellybutton, whose potential at being something much cooler was sadly lost.
Here’s what I do know about eyes…
Crawdad eyes bounce. Chalk this up to 9th grade biology class. Give pubescent boys dead animals and they will definitely do anything they can to gross out the girls, in the hopes of actually impressing them.
Needless to say, we learned early during disection that crawdad eyes bounce.
I have no idea if this means human eyes bounce or not.