Corporeal

Gabriella Torres 

There are many distinctions among bodies:

Passive bodies vs. active bodies.

Bodies that orbit and bodies that are orbited by another body.

Write out the word body enough times and its boundaries begin to dissolve and everything that makes a body starts to seep out and leave a trail on the sidewalk, the highway, the sky.

Some bodies have more meaning than others. More significance, more value, more capital. Some bodies go missing and everybody cries.

More bodies go missing and people cross off items from their grocery list.

Some bodies are violated by a number of other bodies. This happens in every part of the world.

One cannot escape the violence certain bodies enact upon other bodies. Bodies are in constant

struggle or conflict to be more than corporeal.

To be more than bodies.

To be bodies running into the woods. To be bodies breaking away.

The practice of stealing bodies is not limited to corpses.

The distinction between a body and a corpse.