Testing

In some ways, we realize,
We’re arguing with ourselves—
We rarely react to you

In the flesh, and few of you
Breathing, embodied
People will ever meet us.

It’s your words, your us, we meet
Through the medium of this
One body conducting us,

As we conduct this body’s
Visceral response to words
Other bodies conducted,

A kind of shadow boxing,
If the shadows truly boxed
Each other to test themselves.