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*Copycat

im a self describing a self

a face on a liquid surface

a plasticity

a brain

a three pound infinity

always remodeling itself

and making new copies

 

a copy

of

a copy

of

a copy

 

a massive  accumulation of copies

each a slight distortion

from it's original eminence

a history of minute alterations

all subtle deceptions

 

my so-called reality

a memory

of

a memory

of

a memory

a repetition pouring the self out

self corrupting the self

until it is somebody else

 

a fibbing shifty double-dealing soft machine

trying to remain intact

it's signature

a disjunctured awareness

 

my cells talk **** about each other

i'm more microbes than human

every synaptic light of the divine casting a shadowed past

a devil to the true origin

a mangled remembering

my pillar of reality

spirit from matter

not the other way around

 

i no longer recognize myself

am i human

or perhaps a robot

an alien

a walk in

that left the original inhabitant

disembodied

to wander perplexed in a netherworld

lost and crying

 

or, just a bad copy

of

a copy

of

a copy

of

a co

 

py

 

of

 

a

 

a

 

co

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Aug 11, 2018
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