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+title: Elegy for an alternate self
+genre: verse
+
+project:
+    title: Autocento of the breakfast table
+    css: autocento
+...
+
+Say there are no words. Say that we are conjoined \
+from birth, or better still, say we are myself. \
+---But I still talk to myself, I build my world \
+through language, so if we say there are no words \
+this is not enough. Say we are instead some animal, \
+or better yet, a plant, or a flagellum motoring \
+aimlessly around. (Say that humans are the only things \
+that reason. Say that we're the only things that worry.)
+
+Say that I am separate. To say there's everything else \
+and then there's me is wrong. Each thing is separate: \
+there is no whole in the world. Say this is both good \
+and bad, or rather, say there is no good or bad but only \
+being, more and more of it always added, none taken out \
+though it can be forgotten. Say that forgetting \
+is a function of our remembering. (Say that humans only \
+worry about separation. Say that only humans feel it.)