Identity: the hermit crab

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Some of these words are borrowed from Judith Butler and Patti Lather


You look at me with curiosity

"but how do you know?" and I don't- oh I don't really

I have tried to label for you a moment mid-scurry,

nail down that which is ephemeral

but really I am not this, or that

I am the movement

to/from comfort zones


I am like a hermit discarding an outgrown shell

scurrying naked (don't look, don't catch me)

into the next shield against the predatory eyes

of objectification.


I am born in my...

repetition...

variation...

divergence...

maybe growth? Discarding that which

no longer fits...

deviation...

subversion ...

...

and repeat


but I am not that shell which is all I can show you

of myself.

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