Liberty Beck
Gelatinous Creatures
♪ you say we have to shed our skins ♪ the way animals leave behind ♪ outlines of their bodily memories ♪
only then do we realise ♪ how transparent the skin ♪ of our second & third & so on outlines ♪ always
eager to evanesce ♪ you say to know where your body ends is to know where the world begins ♪ but I’m
almost always never ready ♪ to realise a silhouette ♪ let alone to watch the outline of myself disappear ♪
no body is ever ready ♪ but we continue to continue anyway ♪ we begin to all look like ♪ jellyfish ♪
gelatinous creatures ♪ we’re curling mirrors ♪ sometimes I have to ask if you’re still there ♪ because there
are so many different bodies of self-awareness ♪ sometimes I can just barely see in you ♪ everything that
does and no longer ♪ breathes ♪ to me ♪ you’re saying we whisper worlds of many selves ♪ some pour
into a second body ♪ some aren’t sure if they can make a second body ♪ some etch the letters of their
name ♪ with a toe to the sand ♪ crumbling with the beach ♪ I spindle my skin into music notes ♪ crumble
♪ feel freer ♪ give what has disappeared ♪ then disappear ♪
Liberty Beck is a (reliably) unreliable seventeen-year-old mushroom living in Tāmaki Makaurau. She is more frequently called ‘Libby?!’, ‘Library’, and ‘The kid with all the googly eyes’.