In the Name of the Body

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Narrative

A narrative, story or tale is any account of a series of related events or experiences, whether nonfictional (memoir, biography, news report, documentary, travelogue, etc.) or fictional (fairy tale, fable, legend, thriller, novel, etc.). Narratives can be presented through a sequence of written or spoken words, still or moving images, or any combination of these. The word derives from the Latin verb narrare (to tell), which is derived from the adjective gnarus (knowing or skilled). Along with argumentation, description, and exposition, narration, broadly defined, is one of four rhetorical modes of discourse. More narrowly defined, it is the fiction-writing mode in which the narrator communicates directly to the reader. The school of literary criticism known a… more »

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Cut and paste the pieces of my skin into a tapestry 
Clip off a bit of hair, put some at the top there 
A collage of no substance, a piece of no value 
Just an amateur collection of some cells and red and blue 

Can you tell how ready I am to give up on this one, too? 

Purple and red come together to stain a canvas 
To create a portrait of imperfection in the name of some kind of art
If it could be called that, if it could be called that
Nails and teeth biting into my flesh, carving a story with no clear points 
And no goddamn substance, no fucking substance

Cellulite scars, nothing quite right about the way my proportions line up 
Nothing so damaged as this unscathed body of mine 
I grow so weak as I see the skin on my hands crack so easily 
They tell their own tales, but they fall on deaf ears as the person 
They're closest to doesn't care to hear them 
No, I don't care to hear them 

Purple and red come together to stain a canvas 
To create a portrait of imperfection in the name of some kind of art
If it could be called that, if it could be called that
Nails and teeth biting into my flesh, carving a story with no clear points 
And no goddamn substance, no fucking substance

I'm not an artist and that's not hard to understand 
I've worked hard on this piece all my life to see no progression 
Each story unfolds with no sort of lesson 
No morals, no compasses, not one map 
Not a single hope of reflecting exactly what I'm trying to feel 
Or what I've tried to heal 
I'm not an artist, I'm not an artist, I'm not an artist 
You'll see that with time 
I'm not an artist, I'm not an artist, I'm not an artist 
You'll see that with time, you'll see that in time

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