Friday, January 15, 2010

I

I avoid using the word I. It stands alone, sort of like an order, sort of like a haughty, corrupt general, and sort of like a head-up-in-the-clouds arrow, maybe a middle finger raised in a fit of fury-frustration, that scorns everything not as straight and proper as itself. 
And it is also the most selfish word because it insists that it wants to be a word all by itself. "A" would be different. It comes as something before a noun perhaps, sharing the spotlight and in fact shyly hiding away behind the focus point. 
We don't even know that we exist so while in this state of unconscious limbo, why do we still make up a word for ourselves? 

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