Am I Now I?

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