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    Hold me to the flames,

    hold my body in my own hands:

    I do not know if I am a man

    or an articulate doll.

    Am I a figment of their machine,

    a figment of their consciousness –

    my consciousness, alas, plundered?

    In what fetal bath,

    taught speech by some alien mouth?

    Who am I, to whom

    does this body belong

    at last, after all my disembodied friends?

    Am I that I have known?

    Enough for one hundred lifetimes,

    one hundred deaths:

    more than I want or need to know.

    Yet can it hurt – yet can it hurt? –

    to ask?

    Enough. More than I want or need to know. Enough for one hundred lifetimes, one hundred deaths –

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