Alien

[Lizzie]

 (Though in the first line I think you should take out "my self" because I kept reading it as something like, you wouldn't know who YOU were.) 

Hey, Quix Thanks for commenting. Yeah, the form is a pantoum.

The "my self" -- the speaker is wondering if they would recognize themselves in the mirror without preconceived notions and learned constructs of seeing. Yup, that's intentional.

It's a piece about perception: basically the idea is that our brains see what we expect and what's familiar, and this keeps us from seeing life in forms that we don't expect, our own or others.' Yeah, I was trying to layer in the meaning, but I don't want it to drone on, so if the form doesn't work, I'll drop it.

I'd say thanks for playing in my sandbox, but that might sound strange.

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Maybe I'll think about changing the title, since that probably predisposes people to think it's just about alien life, but the inner life can be just as alien. Hmmmmm.....