She will describe everything
in the room: the negative space
will be her body: the summation
of her surroundings the contours
of her faulty yet believable plan:
dust-collecting papers under the bed
from episodes of addictions to self-
analysis quizzes: to be reviewed,
analyzed, and summarized: the stacks
to explain desires, wants, interests:
lucky she got some answers before
someone started making a buck
on the internet: quack analyses and
analogies, maybe—but someone else
must tell her what she is.

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Before internet quizzes drew up our characters as Egyptian goddesses, super heroes, or possibly office supply products, they would simply offer us as a color or a four-letter acronym. What other thing are we in the world?