Fashioning the Body: Versions of the Citizen, the Self, and the Subject

"People are not in the habit of thrusting out this organ to the gaze of others except in illness for the inspection of the doctor, or in rudeness, to express contempt of an opponent."

This hidden red thing; what a peculiar object!

Yet so useful to a poker, a proder: A Doctor.  The Doc pokes and prods at this lip licker, this red thing.  And in doing so scrapes at the state of the depths.  This old fashioned Doc trusts this indicator; this lip licker.  "Scrape it, delve into the caked fur and reveal the fortune."  Oh, you silly fortune teller.  Can this piece of the body be like a card?  A tarot?

No, it is like a jigsaw puzzle.  It is a piece of a body.

This red piece of jigsaw puzzle sits, quite literally sits, in a space amidst a head.  It lays centered inside a closed toothed jail before a long hallway with no existing lights.

It is a taste tester that is exhausted.  It has certainly passed the test though.  A+ little student!

"Ugh...tobacco.  Why must I be tortured?  Really?!"

"Oh, yummy chocolate; I bring pleasure to you, The Chooser."

I am the chooser of things for this lil' student.  It learns of new things, new tastes, new touches.

Teeth:

Tongues' companions sit out front, typically able to see the light of day that the gate opens to reveal.  Teeth of "pearly white" (or at least this is what is strived for) compliment the deep pinkish red of the inner organ.

I am the key master to the lip gates.  The bone bars keep the tongue creature in.

"The tongue creature!"  "Ahh..."  It is a hidden thing that no one really wants to see.  It is like so many other things in society that is shuned from the surface.  Expendable pieces.  But, it is not expendable!  Just like many things that seem expendable are not necessarily so!  Like a transexual in this world.  Like an elderly person with Alzheimer... 

I accept you!  Show your tongue to the world!  This seemingly expendible creature (this jigsaw piece) is a metaphorical thing of all the unnecessarily hidden things.

It is useful too!  Acceptance!