“I have projected myself into the other with such power that when I am without the other I cannot recover myself, regain myself: I am lost forever.”
–Roland Barthes
he flung himself
as with all
his obsessions
fully into the idea
of her
slagging off bits
overtime
he became some other
diminished
irretrievable
a ghost
to her
to himself
lost
(July 31, 2017)
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