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| 1 | --- | ||
| 2 | title: Elegy for an alternate self | ||
| 3 | genre: verse | ||
| 4 | |||
| 5 | project: | ||
| 6 | title: Autocento of the breakfast table | ||
| 7 | css: autocento | ||
| 8 | ... | ||
| 9 | |||
| 10 | Say there are no words. Say that we are conjoined \ | ||
| 11 | from birth, or better still, say we are myself. \ | ||
| 12 | ---But I still talk to myself, I build my world \ | ||
| 13 | through language, so if we say there are no words \ | ||
| 14 | this is not enough. Say we are instead some animal, \ | ||
| 15 | or better yet, a plant, or a flagellum motoring \ | ||
| 16 | aimlessly around. (Say that humans are the only things \ | ||
| 17 | that reason. Say that we're the only things that worry.) | ||
| 18 | |||
| 19 | Say that I am separate. To say there's everything else \ | ||
| 20 | and then there's me is wrong. Each thing is separate: \ | ||
| 21 | there is no whole in the world. Say this is both good \ | ||
| 22 | and bad, or rather, say there is no good or bad but only \ | ||
| 23 | being, more and more of it always added, none taken out \ | ||
| 24 | though it can be forgotten. Say that forgetting \ | ||
| 25 | is a function of our remembering. (Say that humans only \ | ||
| 26 | worry about separation. Say that only humans feel it.) | ||