you have to say, It's I who am doing this to me, I who am talking about me to me. Then the breath fails, the end begins, you go silent, ifs the end, short-lived, you begin again, you had forgotten, there's someone there, someone talking to you, about you, about him . . . all I have to do is listen, then they depart, one by one, and the voice goes on, it's not theirs, they were never there, there was never anyone but you, talking to you about you, the breath fails