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Apologies to My (Sweet) Body (From a Head-Tripper in Transition)

By Jeff Brown — 2017

I apologize for hiding from you in my mind. I was a head-tripper extraordinaire, preferring the seeming safety of my thoughts to the often savage world of feeling. Although I was frequently called ‘absent-minded’, I was actually ‘absent-bodied’, living far outside the walls of the body temple.

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