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[beauty--deleted.livejournal.com]

How to remove oneself from oneself
[ without unknowing oneself totally ]:
open the empty receptacles,
consign our mobility there,
the free air, the green wind,
and not leave for the rest
only an option of shadows,
a chance glance in an elevator,
a picture gone dead in the eyes?

Some protocol must be found
for establishing absence
with nothing really established
-- some allowance for the curious among
us who feel the great gust in their faces
when the oratorical sound is uncovered,
and find, just under their boot-soles,
the absent one blazing back at them.

Dying - Pablo Neruda