Simon, Sarah

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Gandy Dancer ArchivesVolume 4 | Issue 2 Article 265-1-2016c i n g u l u mSarah SimonSUNY GeneseoFollow this and additional works at: https://knightscholar.geneseo.edu/gandy-dancerPart of the Poetry CommonsThis Poetry is brought to you for free and open access by KnightScholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in Gandy Dancer Archives by an authorizededitor of KnightScholar. For more information, please contact KnightScholar@geneseo.edu.Recommended CitationSimon, Sarah (2016) "c i n g u l u m," Gandy Dancer Archives: Vol. 4 : Iss. 2 , Article 26.Available at: https://knightscholar.geneseo.edu/gandy-dancer/vol4/iss2/26110sarah siMonc i n g u l u mIt is an integral part of the limbic system, which is involved with emotion formation and processing, learning, and memory. The combination of these three functions makes the cingulate gyrus highly influential in linking behavioral outcomes to motivation (e.g. a certain action induced a positive emotional response, which results in learning). This role makes the cingulate cortex highly important in disorders such as depression and schizophrenia.—“Cingulate cortex” from Wikipedia111wraps to form a cranialbay curvetable winding from thatBoston BostonianI am not a New Englander but Cape Cod’s shiverhooks.above is that Merrimack of mineand skiing and reading,collapsing into the cortex of itself, laughing:He is saying his haircut is always $16and when payinghe only asks for a dollar backThere is not depression;You “thank you” through a drawl drawnout and down with the staircase,to a door held open for you that you expect to be held open for youThere is hope in you expecting;Art!There is asilence after screams.You are etched on my heartdEFINITION1 engrave (metal, glass, or stone) by coating it with a protective layer, draw-ing on it with a needle, and then covering it with acid to attack the parts the needle has exposed, especially in order to produce prints from it: (as adj. etched) : etched glass windows.112There is the feeling comeback.There is far too much feeling.So I will go away from it nowand vacation on the Cape playing handgames with anchors;serotonin is the masthead and my boat is upside-downSo the anchors will dock in my direction,and I will have a will to entertain themwith whispers. of little things the people around me do,curving to drown a family secret:planning and expecting and art and feeling,laying beach chairs out over the hookand an umbrella,to protect from the sun.Their little ticks are the curlicuesdrawing on banalities concentrically, whiledepressed people only draw on themselves.Depressed people twist for nothing.Depressed people know they know everything.Depressed people are more realistic.Depressed people neither maintain tip rituals norDrawl to held-open doors, nor create;Depressed people are not in love.(Am I depressed)?Definitions are what is knownin parses.Wrap the cingulum by a numb-numbing curve, andaccept the prehensile word. eat clamchowder.113Would 6 be a good time for dinner?        Feels like I’ll be hungry by then(You are quite good at monitoring the activity of your duodenum)(It’s nice to know you care about things)

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