Decentre
By harrietmacmillan
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Mine
I
We
Us
but
always
ME
Piaget states that between the ages
Of two and seven, we should be able
To desist in seeing
Our own being
As the primary subject-
The protagonist of every page.
I am four-and-twenty and yet,
I write only what I know.
I cannot seem to distill
Purity beyond my own will.
Further than my own ken
I cannot yet seem to get.
Am I pre-operational?
No:
For there is animism,
Perhaps not fluffy bears.
But I have a doll’s house
and inside
live breathing, feeling, glowing words.
The problem is that all the residents of that house,
Tend to look a lot like me.
My words wear curly tops, large breasts,
And their insecurities upon their sleeves.
I live inside my doll’s house and gaze into
A tiny, plastic mirror, so that I can see my self clearer.
Then, when I do
I will be formal
Operational.
The mountains are another world
And I will climb them so I can be
A poet who speaks of mountains
Not just a poet who speaks of me.
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I'm not sure that mountains
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