when you see me, know that you are seeing me. it’s really me, the real me: i am small and soft. i was born loud and bloody and electric, a boom of potentiality, a crash-bang of voice and body up against eternity, a flash by humanity, into humanity, within humanity, and the size of me was great. and the nurses rubbed off a little, and my parents loved off a little and spanked off a little, and my teachers taught away little by little, and i gave pieces of me to friends and str