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---
title: Elegy for an alternate self
id: elegyforanalternateself
genre: verse
project:
title: Autocento of the breakfast table
class: autocento
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| 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.)
[no words]: hymnal.html
[a plant]: plant.html
[only things that worry]: movingsideways.html
[there is no whole in the world]: i-wanted-to-tell-you-something.html
[worry about separation]: swansong-alt.html
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