After X begets Y,
which is, over time
consumed by Z,
nobody ever thinks
to suspect W—
let alone A B and C.
As you're about to see, this world
will be filled with monuments
to those three.
It's only afterwards,
when everything outside of
the circle
has been eliminated,
when you are finally
not anyone—even less
than the bits
which you've been
broken into—that
some disembodied sense
will realize it
already knew
how to recite
the complete Shakespeare
from memory.
