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by Hosanna Rae
1 Def: the voice of the Romantics; a quiet self-reflection; an offensive referent; the subject in the mirror; a limitation; the collective unifier; you; the ego’s echo; a narrative’s needle; one start to introspection; the monarch of a sentence; Barthes’ muse; the quantum core to the expanded personal; a secluded universe; the bridge between self and other; a crucible; the beginning of meaning; a finite separation; a distinction; a resemblance; one complete thought; parafiction; frightfully overused; the furthest thing from originality; the feeling of almost; a marking; our name; synonymity; anonymity; linguistics’ economy; post-modern fragility; you’s lover; columns; vertical breaks; a repetition compulsion; syllabic chants: I I I I I I : the loss of a curated conception.