Ostinato

An awareness is not a self.
A self is a little vampire virus
Neither dead nor alive
That fastens awareness by the neck

And sucks and sucks and sucks.
But don't get too worked up.
Parasitism has always been
An honorable profession

In the fields of the world
And without it could not
Have many things lived that did
Live, including flickering,

Endlessly self-referential,
Evaporative awarenesses.