Am I Now I?

Change the way you 

think you're escaping

toward the blue and fuzzy,

bleeding into a wash. 

[Ask me not to say it.] 

 Awake from the night-

mare of I  

founded on a misconception— 

This place that is no place,

unspeakably alone,

where nothing happens

like cloud-shadows.   

Sources: 

Chaos Theory: A Unified Theory of Muppet Types by Dahlia Lithwick.

Quotes from Ulysses by James Joyce. 

The Best 100 Closing Lines from Books.

Letters To A Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke.

Chapter 1 of The Time Machine by H.G. Wells.

Blueprints and Others by John Ashbery.


Note: First published in The Bangalore Review, December 2016.