We never experienced the first. Absence
Of some phenomena we remembered, yes,
And loss of various passing loves precious
To us. But none? Nothing? Nothing cannot
Be experienced. As for the second, it was
Simple enough, the most basic identity,
The single, the singular, the singularity. But
Who among us has ever known such unity?
And unless by one we mean everything ever
Then any one must have a boundary keeping
It from every other thing, and where or when
Does any one such boundary begin? Plural
Only multiplies the agony. To be more than
One requires submission to being one among
Multiples of one kind of thing. There is no one
Kind of thing, no one of any kind, and no
Duplicates of that nonexistent one kind,
Neither. For one thing, then, none is a myth,
And one thing is a myth, for another. As for
Two or more among us, I can only shudder.
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