Replacement

I'm not who I used to be
Each not who I used to be
Each piece who I used to be
Each piece was I used to be
Each piece was removed used to be
Each piece was removed, changed to be
Each piece was removed, changed slowly, be
Each piece was removed, changed slowly, subtly
Until piece was removed, changed slowly, subtly
Until finally was removed, changed slowly, subtly
Until finally now removed, changed slowly, subtly 
Until finally now the changed slowly, subtly 
Until finally now the difference slowly, subtly  
Until finally now the difference is subtly
Until finally now the difference is clear
I finally now the difference is clear
I look now the difference is clear
I look different the difference is clear
I look different than difference is clear 
I look different than I is clear 
I look different than I really clear
I look different than I really appear
Yet look different than I really appear
Yet something different than I really appear
Yet something within than I really appear
Yet something within me I really appear
Yet something within me measures really appear
Yet something within me measures my appear
Yet something within me measures my size
Comparing something within me measures my size
Comparing the within me measures my size
Comparing the me me measures my size
Comparing the me it measures my size
Comparing the me it does my size
Comparing the me it does not size
Comparing the me it does not recognize

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& we will talk until we have no more mouth

A piece succeeds insofar as it inspires talking points.
A piece inspires talking points insofar as it addresses issues that can hardly be articulated.
A piece addresses issues that can hardly be articulated insofar as it strains against language.

How to Disappear

The best way to disappear is to give yourself to someone else. 

Make sure you select the right person.

We are air. We are air inside balloons. 

Give them your air; deflate your self; transfer everything you can do; watch their circular walls expand outward; feel yourself swell even as you shrink.

The final sacrifice is to throw yourself away. Because you have nothing more to give. 

All we can give is our self.

How to Win in a Fight

To win in a fight:

1. Become the other person
2. Kill yourself
3. Go back to being you again

Possible side-effects: You may suffer from identity vertigo & a lack of self-confidence [confidence that "the self" exists].

Nothing Something Everything: The self

Note: The following tripartite prose poem takes place on three parallel tracks (Nothing, Something and Everything) which one may read in several sequences:

A. From start to finish, including each track (as in a traditional poem)

B. One track at a time (i.e. only italics, standard or bold)

C. Two tracks at a time (e.g. standard and bold but not italics)

D. Repeating some lines, skipping others, reading backwards, etc. (for complete reader control)

The self

The self is unstable, as eternally changing an entity as the ocean

The self is an ocean of waves, existing within certain bounds

Within the space of the sea-self, there is movement

We are empty vessels, separated by our sides

Identity, the liquid that fills us, the substance that is us

Our liquid a pittance compared to the collective ocean we could become

My self became a strainer & I couldn’t hold on to anything

Some people, thimbles, need only a drop, & yet

Doubling fluid, exchanging essence

I fell through the gaps in my self

How stable is a vessel on a raging sea?

The fantasy of stability maintains our sanity

We are houses of cards, shaken by whispers

A building collapsing on amorphous foundation

Our limited framework is expandable, replaceable

& still we create because the barrenness scares us

& still we construct on the scaffolding of self

& still we conspire of our constancy

Wanted

"Do you spend most of your time:
- Listening to your favorite music?
- Thinking?
- Searching for good books & movies that won't waste your time?
- Trying not to be depressed?
- Enjoying being/hoping to be creative?
- Yearning for something more?
 
You are not alone.
You are wanted.

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