The people merge, skinless. The body loses
its boundaries. We are each in these
separate bodies; and then, with someone and
not with someone elSe, the skin dissolves
altogether; and what touches is unspeakably,
grotesquely visceral, not inside language or
conceptualization, not inside time; raw,
blood and fat and muscle and bone, unmediated
by form or formal limits. There is no
physical distance, no self-consciousness,
nothing withdrawn or private or alienated, no
existence outside physical touch. The skin
collapses as a boundary.
Kathy Acker, Empire of the Senseless