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Body Meat
What clothes your skeleton, keeps it warm, and allows it to move around.

Fashion Club
Could be the popular kids all dressing alike, or just as easily the creative weirdos in unique self-designed outfits.

Fishbone
Another unclothed skeleton, the cartoon symbol for stinking garbage, but also the framework that allows our ichthyan siblings to swim.

Summer Sleeves
As the light fades at 4 pm and the cold creeps in, we can dream of dressing our arms in short fluttery sleeves. Summer will come again.

Wearing Hats
This one was meant for me! If I’m performing or otherwise want to be visible, I put on a cool hat, a trait I share with Barbara, the main character of The Gospel According to St. Rage and Barbara and the Rage Brigade. (This band is elusive enough that I assume they have taken their hats off in order to be invisible.)

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