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| 1 | --- | ||
| 2 | title: Elegy for an alternate self | ||
| 3 | genre: verse | ||
| 4 | |||
| 5 | id: elegyforanalternateself | ||
| 6 | toc: "Elegy for an alternate self" | ||
| 7 | |||
| 8 | project: | ||
| 9 | title: Autocento of the breakfast table | ||
| 10 | class: autocento | ||
| 11 | ... | ||
| 12 | |||
| 13 | | Say there are no words. Say that we are conjoined | ||
| 14 | | from birth, or better still, say we are myself. | ||
| 15 | | ---But I still talk to myself, I [build my world][] | ||
| 16 | | through language, so if we say there are [no words][] | ||
| 17 | | this is not enough. Say we are instead some animal, | ||
| 18 | | or better yet, [a plant][], or a flagellum motoring | ||
| 19 | | aimlessly around. (Say that humans are the only things | ||
| 20 | | that reason. Say that we're the [only things that worry][].) | ||
| 21 | |||
| 22 | | Say that I am separate. To say there's everything else | ||
| 23 | | and then there's me is wrong. Each thing is separate: | ||
| 24 | | [there is no whole in the world][]. Say this is both good | ||
| 25 | | and bad, or rather, say there is no good or bad but only | ||
| 26 | | being, [more and more of it always added][], none taken out | ||
| 27 | | though it can be forgotten. Say that forgetting | ||
| 28 | | is a [function of our remembering][]. (Say that humans only | ||
| 29 | | [worry about separation][]. Say that only humans feel it.) | ||
| 30 | |||
| 31 | [no words]: hymnal.html | ||
| 32 | [a plant]: plant.html | ||
| 33 | [only things that worry]: movingsideways.html | ||
| 34 | [there is no whole in the world]: i-wanted-to-tell-you-something.html | ||
| 35 | [worry about separation]: swansong-alt.html | ||
| 36 | [build my world]: i-am.html | ||
| 37 | [more and more of it always added]: no-nothing.html | ||
| 38 | [function of our remembering]: collage-instrument.html | ||