We Are Many

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    <strong>We Are Many</strong>

    Of the many men whom I am, whom we are,

    I ot settle on a single one.

    They are lost to me uhe cover 藏书网of clothing

    They have departed for another city.

    Whehing seems to be set

    to show me off as a man of intelligence,

    the fool I keep cealed on my person

    takes over my talk and occupies my mouth.

    On other occasions, I am dozing in the midst

    of people of some distin,

    and when I summon my ceous self,

    a coward pletely unknown to me

    swaddles my poor skeleton

    in a thousand tiny reservations.

    When a stately home bursts into flames,

    instead of the fireman I summon,

    an arsonist bursts on the se,

    and he is I. There is nothing I  do.

    What must I do to distinguish myself?

    How  I put myself together?

    All the books I read

    lionize dazzling hero figures,

    brimming with self-assurance.

    I die with envy of them;

    and, in films where bullets fly on th<bdi>9９ｌiｂ.</bdi>e wind,

    I am left in envy of the cowboys,

    left admiring even the horses.

    But when I call upon my DASHING BEING,

    out es the same OLD LAZY SELF,

    and so I never know just WHO I AM,

    nor how many I am, nor ILL BE BEING.

    I would like to be able to touch a bell

    and call up my real self, the truly me,

    because if I really need my proper self,

    I must not allo></samp> myself to disappear.

    While I am writing, I am far away;

    and when I e back, I have already left.

    I should like to see if the same thing happens

    to other people as it does to me,

    to see if as many people are as I am,

    and if they seem the same way to themselves.

    When this problem has been thhly explored,

    I am going to syself so well in things

    that, when I try to explain my problems,

    I shall speak, not of self, but of geography.

    <strong>Pablo Neruda</strong>

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