Teritour

Sometimes my world seems made up

Only of owners, renters

And tourists, as if they were

Semi-stable entities

The bodies inhabited

Or rapidly cycled through,

The way the bodies themselves

Seem half-stable entities

That microbes and nutrients

Inhabit and cycle through.

Possession is not nine-tenths

Of the law—possession is

Nine-tenths of existence, which

Means nine-tenths nested pauses,

Possessing, being possessed,

And ten-tenths temporary—

These lines are in possession

Of borrowed words and phrases

That cycle through this body

Renting out identities,

No idea what possessed me.