Couplets

Couplets

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I became myself.
I became myself.

No, I always was myself.
There’s no such person as myself.

I wouldn’t have to turn my eye
inward, I thought, if I could train my eye

on him—the one I loved.
But I was wrong. My eye loved

everything it fell upon.
And then one day it fell upon

a mirror. And he was nowhere
in the mirror. And she was everywhere.

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