my hair grows on top of an invisible zipper
separating high from low
there is a receptacle ready
for the three prong kind, plenty of electricity
to shock me into being
a part of your world
![picture of jars of canned goods and three blue boxes with a woman in them and picture of white background with various colored string sewn on it with needles, two brown eggs, a white winganda person's arms and torso holding a chicken](https://dsq-sds.org/index.php/dsq/article/download/3250/version/3014/3098/6740/3250_Eisenhauer_01.jpg)
and I stick and crinkle as my fingers
trace the worry beads on my wrist over and over
beads
braille
music notes
I read messages and sing
from my fingertips
![two pictures: Photo on left is black and white. Three boys and one woman are holding plastic glasses over their eyes while another woman looks at them over a chain link and barbed wire fence. Photo on the right is of a green-walled room with a chandelier, a vase of small white flower and three vases on a wooden table and a chair. Below the room is a black background with white sheets hanging on a clothes line.](https://dsq-sds.org/index.php/dsq/article/download/3250/version/3014/3098/6739/3250_eisenhauer_02.jpg)
my legs are connected with rubber bands
they bounce apart and together
a springy marionette
tapping a silent rhythm
pumping the fuel
to my heart and other organs