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Many long hours after the biopsy surgery,
I wake from anaesthetic—
my entire body wrapped in strange new pain:

an invisible tight broad metal band
corsets my lower chest wall—
I can hardly breathe;

my lower body crackles, crunches and bursts
with sensation—
if only I could stop them.

My two legs have stopped being identical twins:
right leg is hypersensitive to the gentlest touch;
the left is completely numb.

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