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1 | --- | ||
2 | title: Elegy for an alternate self | ||
3 | id: elegyforanalternateself | ||
4 | genre: verse | ||
5 | |||
6 | project: | ||
7 | title: Autocento of the breakfast table | ||
8 | class: autocento | ||
9 | ... | ||
10 | |||
11 | Say there are no words. Say that we are conjoined \ | ||
12 | from birth, or better still, say we are myself. \ | ||
13 | ---But I still talk to myself, I build my world \ | ||
14 | through language, so if we say there are [no words][] \ | ||
15 | this is not enough. Say we are instead some animal, \ | ||
16 | or better yet, [a plant][], or a flagellum motoring \ | ||
17 | aimlessly around. (Say that humans are the only things \ | ||
18 | that reason. Say that we're the [only things that worry][].) | ||
19 | |||
20 | Say that I am separate. To say there's everything else \ | ||
21 | and then there's me is wrong. Each thing is separate: \ | ||
22 | [there is no whole in the world][]. Say this is both good \ | ||
23 | and bad, or rather, say there is no good or bad but only \ | ||
24 | being, more and more of it always added, none taken out \ | ||
25 | though it can be forgotten. Say that forgetting \ | ||
26 | is a function of our remembering. (Say that humans only \ | ||
27 | [worry about separation][]. Say that only humans feel it.) | ||
28 | |||
29 | [no words]: hymnal.html | ||
30 | [a plant]: plant.html | ||
31 | [only things that worry]: movingsideways.html | ||
32 | [there is no whole in the world]: i-wanted-to-tell-you-something.html | ||
33 | [worry about separation]: swansong-alt.html | ||