xxxvii
irregular star
have you noticed how
the thoughts of others become your thoughts
though you don’t know
how your thoughts
became your own?
and now
you have to navigate a crowd
inside your individual head
just to get to yourself
you might not even be surprised to find
that you didn’t know where you were
or if there was a you to find
and wouldn’t be able to say the things you think
to say
should your sayings be spoken
by another voice in the crowd
everyone would be in quite a huff then
because they know who said what
and said what when
you were just wandering around
trying to keep your feet on the ground
it might really make you wonder then
what makes for what each person can defend
and whether there is a right to thoughts
when everything is mixed and tossed
if it wasn’t for your recipe
would you notice who was in you?
the art of being a slave is to rule ones master.
Diogenes