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Selfish to the Core!

Karl Constantine FOLKES 1935 (Portland)

Haiku
I-Nation Ego:
Me before all other selves!
Not about the We.

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Consider this thought: Typical of Anglo-European English-speaking countries is the uppercase use of the personal pronoun I, in august stature, boldly and prominently capitalized, whether as a subject or as an object, never subjugated, unlike the lower case use of I , realized as ich or yo, or wo; or in so many other ways, where English is not the native language, humbly predicated diminutively , whether manifested as subject or as object.

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Written on January 10, 2022

Submitted by karlcfolkes on January 10, 2022

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Karl Constantine FOLKES

Retired educator of Jamaican ancestry with a lifelong interest in composing poetry dealing particularly with the metaphysics of self-reflection; completed a dissertation in Children’s Literature in 1995 at New York University entitled: An Analysis of Wilhelm Grimm’s “Dear Mili” Employing Von Franzian Methodological Processes. The subject of the dissertation concerned the process of Individuation. more…

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