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Poet, performer and disability culture activist, 1948–2013
when you kiss me my lips ooh my lips, babe and then my larynx like a cat in my throat purrin' prrrrrrrr my esophogus, liver and spleen begin trioin' the blues in a low moan and my belly, inside and button start talkin' low dancin' slow makin' sweet rhythm until my thighs those cotton candy delights hum, and each cell harmony
It opens Wade’s Body Talk performance, and is also spoken in A Woman With Juice, Finding Words (1995) and Sassy Girl (1995).
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