your words

you can see your words in my words
you see i chose to eat your words and down they went into my belly
there they swirl become my own when i speak
from my belly

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Dr Rachel Faleatua has published on authenticity labour in the Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies and has a book chapter on post-vulnerability in the forthcoming Routledge Companion to Gender and Celebrity. Her poetry has been published in Landfall.