you are multitudes

from Excerpts from the Frida Dialogues

Deity

I drank to drown my pain, but the damned pain
learned how to swim... - Frida Kahlo

In a church larger than life
you first learn to be adventurous
From the inside out, the scope of the body shocks
In your temple of autobiography
you paint those dialogues so well

When Diego screws you both
only the politics are lost
The moment
you trade on with your wild she
of pain's nip and tuck