Tuesday, June 1, 2010

this flesh

I present my corporeal reality, inasmuch as i have a conscious relationship to it. At the risk of endorsing a mind-centered view of the universe, we'll start at the point farthest from the head, and work our way thereto.
FEET - A slender size 10, excellently-arched. Averagely-proportioned toes, with barely-visible hairs (the longest being 3/4") on the upper knuckle of the largest two. A big toe was hairline-fracture broken once or twice (self-diagnosis); perhaps volleyball injuries, which took a couple months to heal. One year-long bout with minor athlete's foot.
LEGS - Disparaged by some as "chicken legs", but shapely. Faster and stronger than average. A thin, barely-visible 1" rock-climbing scar on the right thigh. Light, fine hair.
KNEES - Repetitive stress injuries, in the form of frayed ligaments (self-diagnosis). Tight tenderness after a few hours of climbing. Use of braces alleviates this (plus meditative self-healing, mayhap). After several years, the left knee may be healed completely.
SKIN - Fair, and abnormally soft. I tan, but neither quickly nor deeply. I burn easily. Chicken pox as a child. Moderate teenage acne, diminishing but never entirely disappearing as an adult. A few shoulder freckles, which multiply a bit under repeated sunlight. A handful of small hand warts over the course of my lifetime. A handful of red moles, some raised as high as 1/8".
ASS - Abnormally rounded gluteals, for the males of my family. The occasional pimple.
PENIS - 1/4" shorter than average, 1/2" wider, hanging to the right. A blocked sebaceous gland left a pinhead-sized mark on the underside, below the head. A grower, not a shower. A social disease, molluscum, passed through once. Light-colored, average bush. Victim of infant genital mutilation (i.e. circumcision).
TORSO - Athletic. Measurements (35-28-36) more common to a female. Light hair patch mid-chest and on nipples (longest appx. 2"), plus strays on the back shoulders. Fine treasure trail.
NAVEL - Rare innie/outie hybrid.
INTESTINES - Almost entirely free of nicotine, alcohol, caffeine, or any drug, even aspirin.
ARMS - Well-muscled, with veins that make blood-drawers ooh. Blonde, downy hair. Longest underarm hair 3". Rotator cuff injuries to both shoulders: the right one required two years of healing.
HANDS - Slender, and smaller than average. One hairline-fracture broken pinkie (self-diagnosis), the result of poor ambulatory technique. Thick 3/4" scar on mid-knuckle underside of right pinkie, with possible nerve damage, the result of a shattered turtle bowl. In a physical, set an unofficial record for most repeated finger strikes in sixty seconds.
SKULL - Deep-set eyes, sharp jaw and cheekbones, and a pebble-sized bump on the front left top of head.
EYES - Hazel as a youth, blue as an adult; changeable. Near-sighted, with 20/40 vision. I wear glasses for night driving and watching entertainment. One color band missing, which prevents me from distinguishing certain shades of green and brown. The first sign of aging in this specimen has come in the form of laugh lines.
EARS - Excellent. Getting hairier. One rounded, one pointed (make your own Spock observation; i certainly did).
TEETH - Strong, uniform (with the help of adolescent braces), naturally off-white, with two or three small cavities over my lifetime. Wisdom teeth yanked. Back left upper premolar cracked, root-canaled, and replaced. Tiny chip behind right top center incisor, the result of a bad bench-press technique.
NOSE/LIPS - Full enough that i got referenced to having negroid blood, in childhood...perhaps even by myself. Fine sniffer.
HEAD HAIR - Light brown, fading to blonde in sunlight. A red beard which comes in as a goatee. Full unibrow (longest hair 1.5"), of which a few in the middle have gone white, due to plucking.
BRAIN - Arachnoid cyst, non-treated by doctor recommendation. 156 IQ. One childhood concussion, resulting in stars, and no loss of consciousness.
OVERALL - Mostly Germanic, with some Scots, and possibly Norwegian ancestry. Blood type O negative, the universal donor. 5'10", one hundred thirty-five pounds, with 1.9% body fat.

2 comments:

John Jones said...

1) You suppressed mention of your third nipple. Disinformation!

John Jones said...

Philosophically speaking, interesting that you include IQ under body stats. Not a complete surprise, but interesting.